Technophile

I consider myself a technophile as opposed to a technophobe. Technophobes fear science and its application, technology. But, in true technophile-style(e), I'm the opposite, I love, and indeed embrace, all things technological.

But that has its downside. When you're a technophile you start to rely and depend on technology - and by extension the things that provide you with the technology; gadgets and gizmos. For example, any time I need information about ANYTHING I use Google. Everytime. That means I need to sit down at my pc, type on the Logitech wireless keyboard (technology - a keyboard with no wires?? Who'da thunk it), use the accompanying wireless mouse, and stare at the TFT monitor with its tiny desktop footprint. Then I wait the - oh I don't know... - 0.34 seconds for the technology Google uses to throw up the search results. Then I can peruse the various webpages via the Internet, connecting my computer to one computer/server after another, sketching a zig zag across the planet at 700kbs.

All very useful and helpful and easy and problem-solving and fun. And I've never completely got rid of that feeling of excitement in my belly that I first got almost 6 years ago when I first opened up my web browser. Fantastic technology. The whole thing is a technophile's wet dream.

And don't get me started on iPods.

The downside, of course, is the dependancy. The times when your laptop stops working and all you do is fire error messages into Google, trawling through pages of search results, scouring them for possible solutions. Being unable to think about anything other than 'error 000174', not being able to focus on food or family or sleep until the technology is restored to it's all-powerful self.

Or trying to burn DVD videos of your 2 month old daughter to give to your in-laws and waiting the best part of an hour for it to encode and burn, only to find that it doesn't have any sound...and realising that it would have been, oh I dunno, infinitely easier to have simply recorded some VHS video from the camcorder instead...

Being a technophile means that you can appreciate - IMO to a higher degree - the 21st C and all that it offers.

But it also means that you're a bit of a sad geek at times.