Bad Technology! BAD!

We here at lazyview love technology and we often talk about how it helps us expand our laziness horizon. Like all things though, technology has a dark side. It can be twisted and abused for purposes other than making lives easier.

Take this Poor Sap who works for a school district in New York, for example. Work gives him a fancy new cell phone with push to talk (aka walkie talkie) and other features. Poor Sap accepts new phone and uses it . Poor Sap skips out on work a couple hours early and is nailed by the GPS tracking. Poor Sap is fired.

The horror! A cell phone and GPS turned against us! I'm a huge fan of GPS because I get lost ALL the time. I'm rather nonplussed about the cell phone because I don't have any friends to call me anyway, but I suppose they have made life easier. How the hell did anyone meet up with a group of people in crowded places or unknown places before the cell phone? I feel like 10 or 15 years ago people were essentially wandering around like lost puppies just hoping to randomly bump into someone they knew.

Now I suppose you could argue that this technology has made the lives of the school district overseers easier and has allowed them to ferret out an abuser of the system. Such an argument could only be termed gay in the truest interpretation of internet arguing protocol and quickly ignored.

Also, let this be a lesson to all of you. Push to talk is retarded.