Technology: good or bad?

Recently we watched the video Digital Nation where it examined how we are essentially technologically wired everywhere we go. There is Wifi almost everywhere these days. I realized how connected I was when during the video there was a topic of how vacations are not vacation anymore. This past summer when we went to Mexico I was completely outraged that the resort only had internet kiosks. Now that I think about it, it was great that we didn't have access to wifi at all times. A vacation is a vacation where you leave whatever stuff you have going on at home and RELAX!! I think that being wired at all times makes us forget how to do exactly this. In the last few weeks there has been talk in the media that internet is no longer going to be unlimited. Once again I thought to myself I'm screwed. Everything I do for school, all my communication with classes, instructors, groups, library, etc is through the internet. What would I do if the internet is not unlimited? I would start spending a lot of time on campus where we would have internet access. Then I thought to myself. 10 years ago when I did a year of open studies at Grant MacEwan we had no such thing as Blackboard. Nothing was based online. If you needed to communicate with your instructors, you went and saw them. I think that technology has influenced education in a good way but I also believe we are too wired. I understand exactly what the video was trying to say. We all think we are good at multitasking but in reality it isn't doing our education any good. So, now that I realize this, my goal for the rest of the semester is to leave my blackberry in my locker (which might kill me but I'm going to try :-) ), only log onto facebook in the am and in the evening, and not check my email 1000 times a day (that one should be easy if I'm leaving my blackberry in my locker). Great video, absolutely opened my eyes up to something that I didn't even realize.
-K