Lazy Generation

Our culture is constantly striving to become more intertwined with computers. We use computers for everything; our cars, televisions, and even our phones are little super computers. The 21^st century is considered the “Lazy Generation” because everything is done through technology, no one goes to the store to buy non essentials anymore they just go on the internet and have it shipped to their door. Nowadays people play video games and watch television for entertainment, the idea of running outside, for some, is absurd. Another thing that is new to the 21^st century is that nobody keeps their records on paper anymore, except the government, everything is going digital. The issue with this is that we build a reliance on technology. Back in 1999, people feared that all computers would fail because of the change from 20^th century to the 21th century. Even in 1999 our society was so intertwined with computers that the idea of losing them was devastating. So what would happen if in 2012 all our technology crashed? I believe that our society would quickly diminish; our reliance on technology has hindered our natural senses and instincts.  People would end up freezing to death in the winter and overheating in the summer. Feces wouldn’t be disposed of correctly resulting in the return of the black plague, society would essentially devolve and another dark age would arise.

If our society was to fail, would future archeologists, from societies a couple hundred of years down the road, be able to learn about how we lived. I think that with our encryptions on our computers it would be difficult to learn about our society, but not impossible. If given enough time and funding, almost any computer can be hacked and accessed, so as long as all files over our recent history isn’t corrupted then our generation will not seem like another dark age.