Pondering With a Purpose

Thursday is here again and it's time to do a little "pondering" with Brenda from Fiction With a Purpose.

Her rules are really easy:

1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in her sidebar)
2. Look at the week's prompt
3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.
4. Go back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list on Brenda's.
5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.
6. AND most of all.... Have fun!

This Week's prompt is:                             Technology

 Funny that the topic is technology. I've been writing about technology ever since the semester started. Is technology a good thing? What problems does it solve? What problems does it create? Should it be regulated? What are the ethical implications? And what do I think? I think technology is great. It enables us to communicate with our kids even when they are across the ocean. As soon as my kids turned 16 and started driving, I got them cell phones so I could always get in touch with them. I know kids a lot younger than 16 have cell phones now but this was 12 years ago. There was more than once in the middle of winter when my daughter's car went into a ditch and her having that phone enabled me to get there quickly to get her. (My daughter and the ditches is a post for another day) 
Anyway, technology for me is a good thing. I don't think it has caused more crime - just changed the way criminals do things. I do remember the days before all this came about and I do miss that life sometimes. But you have to keep up in this day and age. Most of us depend on technology for our jobs - in one way or another. I know I do.