Damn Google Calendar

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November 19, 2020

Google Calendar is a great map to sink you journey into.  But does it teach us to stop the physical act of memory?  How often do you test yourself?  I don’t mean mental images of the family at the beach or your childhood photographs.  Memory!  Knowing what’s on your plate today.  Remembering what you accomplished two days ago or what needs to get finished before the weekend.  Technology has made us lazy.  Look at what spell check has done.  Because I do a lot of writing on physical paper I must also include having a dictionary nearby.  As we grow deeper into this new world of A.I’s we’re being told that life will be easier.  I can’t help but think how much we’re going to lose as human beings.  Look how quickly we get out of tune when we stop doing a particular thing at work only to come back to it in a month.  We sit there for a few moments and think about the project and all the shortcuts invented by an imagination just trying to get it done.  Our mind body and souls were designed to be challenged and changed.  A vision of Space Odyssey is flowing through my memories. Having physical conversations with a computer blessed with the ability to think for us.  Don’t get me wrong.  I love Google Calendar, Grammarly, the Roomba and the Landroid lawnmower from Worx.  Sadly though it paints the picture of the circular motion of the heavy weight, extremely lazy unable to walk characters in the film Wall-E.  The only expectation of the day will be to climb onboard a moving lawn chair.  In reality you’ve got to challenge your senses.  Your brain needs to be worked and technology has done its wargames on your emotions.  We don’t need to get news and information that fast.  Most of us don’t know what to do with it after we are connected.  I personally challenge my day to day memory and like a parent I hold myself responsible for not knowing the answer.  The daily writing is to make sure I keep myself in touch with contact.  Pen to paper not fingers on a keyboard.  Computer screens offer too many opportunities to quickly erase whereas writing you’ve got to think about it a little more.  Ask yourself in the middle of the night what you had for dinner?  Challenge your memory without the aid of a car key locator.  If you ever want to read about the effects of A.I’s dive into the pages of how the radio industry is living it.  The business of radio wins.  The performers are gone for good.  How are A.I’s changing your workplace? It’s time to build your next platform before the industry of progress catches up.