We Have the Technology

Have you ever stopped to think exactly how much technology you use in your daily life? I don't have a scrapbook page to share with you on this topic, but I've been thinking that a layout about technology in the year 2007 would be a really interesting thing to look back on 20 or 30 years from now. Stay tuned, I think I may have just inspired myself (lol).

We've recently ramped up our personal technology stash in a major kind of way. While cell phones and personal computers have been the norm around our house for some time now, I've mentally inventoried our recently upgraded stash and here is what I come up with. We are a family of four, including one teen and one pre-teen. And we have ... two personal computers, one laptop, two i-pods, one mp3 player, 3 digital cameras, one Sony Playstation 2, one Game Boy DS lite, one printer-scanner-copier, one printer, one fax-copier, one photo printer, one Blackberry (cell, email and internet access), two cell phones, and two flash memory sticks. Not only that, but we recently upgraded the family computer's monitor to a 19" flat screen, we upgraded the RAM in the family computer and in dh's computer, we installed a DVD burner in dh's computer, we purchased a new keyboard for the family computer, and, a week after buying dd a laptop, we bought her a keyboard she can use when doing those looong school assignments.

We have so many USB cables for digi cams, i-pods etc., I am going to have to come up with an organizational system to keep track of them all.

And on top of that, we have 5 televisions (yes, for 4 people), one of which is a BIG screen HD, and another one of which is a big but not as big screen HD. We have 3 DVD players. We have one VHS but that doesn't count, really!

Thankfully, despite the hardware overload, we are not totally mired in the technology bog. On any given day, you're just as likely to find the kids reading actual (as opposed to virtual) books. Ds is just as likely to be out roaming the park with his buddies or playing road hockey, than to be sitting in front of the PlayStation. We've even taken computer- and playstation-free vacations, and in some cases, we didn't even get cell phone service "out there"! That being said, I simply cannot imagine a life without our beloved technology.

So here's hoping there are no house burglars currently reading my blog. On the bright side, if there are, at least now they know to include a really, really big truck in their heist plans. And if they're planning on using our stuff themselves, they'll need power bars. And a really good organizational system for their USB cables.