Tech writer Brian Lam steps back and reflects on the perils of technology:
I owe my livelihood to technology and I love the raw capability it offers us as a tool, but I fear it a bit more than most people do. Its a tool, but its not quite a hammer, because a hammer doesnt seduce you into sitting around lonely in your underwear for 6 hours at a stretch clicking on youtube videos and refreshing twitter. I fear technology because I fear that bad feeling I get after a three day x-box binge I go through every year around the holidays. I fear technology not because I think its evil, but because its too easy to start clicking and never stop, even if the stream of data starts to go from meaningful to useless after the top 5%.