Where'd all my 'tech' go?
I'm sitting in my apartment in Greenville, SC looking over the pool, listening to a television that's sitting on the floor, watching commercials for one piece of technology after another. Suddenly something hit me.
When I was a poor guy working for next to nothing, I had access to pretty much the best of technology. I always had a computer or two that were top of the line with the best graphics and processor upgrades available. I had the newest cell phone and knew about pretty much every gadget coming out in the next 6 months to a year.
I sit here in astonishment wondering where did all of my technology go? I still have ALL CRT displays in my house, I have mediocre computers with the exception of a laptop that the company issued me -- which of course really isn't top of the line either. My cell phone is old and tired. I don't even own a PDA. I see one of our GS folks at work won an HP63xx Pocket PC and isn't even using the cell phone built into it. I don't own a tablet PC. I don't even have my own subscription to MSDN universal anymore. What happened to me?
Has anyone else noticed this sort of trend in their own lives? Its not that I don't have the money. It's not that I wouldn't enjoy playing with the gadgets. I just, don't seem to have the time to do the research on the products anymore. I go to the local electronics store and stand in front of the latest super-snazzy tech and then try to decide which is best based on the specs, but then decide I'll go back home and do some more research before buying the item. By the time I remember to look it up, some new gadget is out and I repeat the cycle. I'm sort of frustrated now and I feel like I may just have tech-envy. I see everyone else with their gadgets and I have to say... where's my tech? Someone please stop me from running to the store in a panic and buying up a storm! Tell me this is normal. Someone? Anyone?