The influences of Technology

I use technology every day but then everybody does. I often don't think about how much technology changes over even short periods such as portable cd players being replaced by mp3 players. I listen to music everyday but it is uncommon for me to think about times when people could only hear music by being at a performance. I appreciate the technology that I have at my disposal partly because my mom reminds me how impressive it is. She only knows enough about how to use computers to turn them off when my younger siblings forget to, but she also knows how useful they are. The rate that computers progress is astonishing whenever I care to think about it and whenever I do I realize that is not always good. I say it is not good because when I was the same age as my younger brother (7 years old) one of my favorite forms of entertainment was a book: games on the computer, though good, were not as interesting; I might have read fewer books if I had games like Star Wars Racer at that age like he does. Technology is nice but it is important to be able to get along without it. TV is one form of technology that holds almost no sway over me though it is readily available because there are very few TV shows that interest me and there are over 700 movies in my house that I can watch that don't have commercials. VCR/DVD players are great because they allow for the sharing of thousands of films that take less time than reading the same story (though the book is almost inevitably better than the movie).