Faster isn’t always better

In his column Monday on emails and Internet service, Gordon Clark is alluding to the lack of a sense of sufficiency by those who believe “faster” will make their lives better.

If you believe gaining nanoseconds in the operation of programming and communications services is necessary to enjoying life or in defining your identity, then a threshold has been crossed: the technology is using you, not the other way around.

As a perceptive analyst once stated: "Technology makes it possible to gain control over everything except technology.”

Ray Arnold, Richmond