I’m prompted to write about this topic for the simple reason that I sat beside a grandmotherly-aged woman on Friday on my plane trip to Florida. She carried on the plane with her the following: a cell phone, a PDA, an iPod, portable DVD player and a laptop. They were all hers! And in her carry on bag she had three Wii’s, the hot Christmas item.

I asked her why she did not pack the Wii’s in her luggage (which I knew she had since she told me). She said, “These are the hottest items in the world right now and I’ve got three of them; I don’t want them stolen.” So I asked the follow-up question: was she giving them to grandchildren? “Hell no,” she said, “I’m selling them on E-Bay.” She was convinced she was going to make a killing. I suppose the 46,000 other Wii sellers that where on E-Bay one week before Christmas thought the same thing.

So after the Wii discussion I commented on the other technology she was carrying around and wanted to know if it was all hers and I implied that I thought it might be a little too over the top. She looked at me like I was from another planet.

The plane ride got me thinking, so I clicked on Google when I sat down to address this week’s blog and typed in “too much technology.” I came across this great article; it is a couple of years old but in my mind still pertinent. I also got 12,100,000 other hits; however, for the sake of brevity I decided not to read them. Instead, I turned my laptop and cell phone off and went to play golf.

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