Technology is killing the quality of the human spirit.

I feel with every passing generation since 19th century, there has been an increasing loss of importnt human qualities due to technology. When the elder generation (ages 60-80) speak of their youth they speak of memories filled with the playing out of imagination and only things derived from imagination. Things such as playing dress up, building forts, learning to work around the house or elsewhere, hanging out with friends, and many other things that did not involve technology. When the middle aged generation (ages 40-60) speak of their youth, they speak of playing out things derived from their imagination mixed with a little technology. Television, movies, videogames, radio, and low tech gadgets that were popular at the time.. But were ony being first introduced on a large scale and were not a part of the normal way of things. This generation speaks of this technology with a youthful desire, but with technology not being readily available, they were forced to be social, use their imagination, and live without the everyday use of technology if need be. With the young adult generation (ages 20-40) speak of their youth, they speak of television, videogames, movies, pagers, cellphones, computers, and etc., to the point where living without this technology would be unacceptable and unheard of. The youth generation (ages 0-20) would barely even know how to function without a computer, cellphones, microwave, etc. Think about it... If there were no phones, how would you contact someone you needed to contact? Here were the obvious options... A.) You go to find the person or persons at places where they are likely to be found. B.) You write a letter and send it in the mail to the person or persons. C.) You tell someone that you know will be in contact with them shortly the information that needs to be given or asked. Now in each of these situations you develop important qualities... A.) This option forces the perso to go outside into the world on a small quest or mision to find the person. During this process you have to reason with.. Where would they most likely be? How will I get there? What might I face along the way? Etc. All of these things develop problem solving skills, force the use of imagination or reason, which infuses the human spirit with quality. In comparison, nowadays all most people do is scroll through the names in a cellphone, push a button, and talk or leave a message. This develo almost nothing of quality in the human brain or spirit, mentally or physically. B.) This option forces you to put your thoughts down on paper, which developes mental organization and clarity, imagination of word usage, vocabularly, penmanship, and other things as well. In comparison, all you have to do now is shoot a quick email, text message, or social network comment, and your effort is done. This also develops very little the human brain or spirit, when all you have to do is find a key and push it, a letter pops up on the screen, and each and every word is spell checked with no effort mentally. C.) This option forces you to think of social situations around you and what is going on in everyone's life in order to figure out who might be in contact with the person or persons that you need to ask or give information to. And once you find that person you must talk to them in person, which forces you to use social skills in order to complete your objective. This is only one example of many that shows how technology is killing the quality of the human spirit. I love technology for all the wonderful things it does to help us, but I am sorry to say that it comes at a great cost.