Like puppets on a string, people today cannot function without being connected to an electronic gizmo.
Rushing around
You see them rushing around with a mobile phone stuck to their ears, talking into space.
You see them running to some meeting, cables from earpieces down into the pocket, a sure sign of an iPod in action.
You see them tapping in their PDAs, checking addresses, appointments, calendars, on the go.
You see them on the train, typing furiously on a laptop; you can hear them shouting down their mobiles to a work colleague and everyone can share their -oh so- confidential information.
There is no escape from the digital shackles, no peace from the electronic slavery, nowhere to hide, at no time for nobody.
What did people do before? How could they manage without incessant chattering? How did businesses survive without permanent connections?
Yet in spite of that hyper-connectivity, this constant rush, nobody seems satisfied.
In fact, Britons are better connected than other Europeans, they work more hours but are not the most productive by far. Is it that all these super-duper-wired people rush around and get nowhere, talk a lot to say little, listen to mainly rubbish, type a lot of drivel, look very busy, very agitated, always active, but in fact achieve little.
We are back to the old chestnut that AGITATION IS NOT ACTIVITY, IS NOT ACHIEVEMENT, IS NOT EFFICIENCY, IS NOT PRODUCTIVITY.
