Comments for Michael Scheumack http://www.scheumack.com Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:43:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Communicating in an Electronic Age by Meet strategic goals with better technology planning http://www.scheumack.com/blog/communicating-in-an-electronic-age/#comment-3 Meet strategic goals with better technology planning Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:43:56 +0000 http://www.scheumack.com/wordpress/?p=144#comment-3 [...] technology is now the driving force in an organization used to increase production and efficiency. E-mail alone has significantly increased production in companies and has become something that [...] [...] technology is now the driving force in an organization used to increase production and efficiency. E-mail alone has significantly increased production in companies and has become something that [...]

]]> Comment on Communicating in an Electronic Age by Leo http://www.scheumack.com/blog/communicating-in-an-electronic-age/#comment-2 Leo Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:08:01 +0000 http://www.scheumack.com/wordpress/?p=144#comment-2 I couldn't agree more with your viewpoint on technology. At one point technology was a luxury. Now it's a necessity and a way of life. No where is this more easily seen than the application of smart phone technology. It seems like you can't go anywhere these days without adults and children alike plugged into their cell phones. Restaurants, movie theaters, malls, schools, planes, trains & automobiles....literally everywhere you turn you find someone texting their friends, listening to music & looking where places are and finding the answer they needed on wikipedia...all on their portable smart phone. This wouldn't concern me if social physical interactions weren't being replaced by a quick swipe of the finger on a phone. Technology in itself and it's current exponential advances aren't necessarily evil or destructive. It's the abuse and replacement of technology that worries me. Personally, I love being able to look up movie listings on my phone and then where the nearest restaurant to that theater is. But for the purposes of enjoying an evening with a friend or loved one physically there engaged in conversation with me. The day I replace this interaction with texting or some other form of less engaging communication I hope someone is there to slap me. I couldn’t agree more with your viewpoint on technology. At one point technology was a luxury. Now it’s a necessity and a way of life. No where is this more easily seen than the application of smart phone technology. It seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without adults and children alike plugged into their cell phones. Restaurants, movie theaters, malls, schools, planes, trains & automobiles….literally everywhere you turn you find someone texting their friends, listening to music & looking where places are and finding the answer they needed on wikipedia…all on their portable smart phone. This wouldn’t concern me if social physical interactions weren’t being replaced by a quick swipe of the finger on a phone.

Technology in itself and it’s current exponential advances aren’t necessarily evil or destructive. It’s the abuse and replacement of technology that worries me. Personally, I love being able to look up movie listings on my phone and then where the nearest restaurant to that theater is. But for the purposes of enjoying an evening with a friend or loved one physically there engaged in conversation with me. The day I replace this interaction with texting or some other form of less engaging communication I hope someone is there to slap me.

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