I’m starting to feel my age. Actually, I’m starting to feel double <\/strong>my age. At a time when technological advances are blooming all around me, I find myself embracing with growing fervor the Luddite inside me. I’m still using the cell phone that I received free for re-upping my contract approximately four years ago. It has no camera, QWERTY keyboard, magic genie, etc. It rings when someone calls me and every now and again indulges my rare need to text. I’m satisfied with that level of service. <\/p>\n

I don’t want a CrackBerry or an iPhone. I’m still thrilled enough with my iPod that I don’t really need or want more at this point. In fact, I recently discovered that I can sync my Outlook contacts list with my iPod and I beamed over this fact for days. It’s the second most exciting thing I learned about my iPod, the first being my discovery of podcasts (but we can talk more about that later…). <\/p>\n

Don’t ask me for my FaceBook or MySpace accounts or if I Twitter. No on all fronts. I’ve got enough attention-stealing stuff crammed into the space of my day as it is.Why on earth would I want to add more? Besides, I currently have two professional and three personal e-mail accounts. If you’re not receiving communications from me from any of those accounts, it more than likely means that I don’t really want to talk with you, let alone tweet you as to whether or not I ate oatmeal or yogurt for breakfast this morning. <\/p>\n

It just seems so antithetical for a geek like me to be saying these things. I am, after all, the mistress of all things sci-fi. Show me the first 30 seconds of any episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> and I can give you the title and a description of what occurs during the episode. Shouldn’t I be embracing full-on the advances in technology, waiting with tingly antici…pation for the day that I can queue up for my very own Data? <\/p>\n

Absolutely! Unless, of course, the version of Data that we design has Twitter functions and direct access to e-mail. Then I just can’t be bothered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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