“Sorry, Cash Not Accepted”
This evening, I’m flying to Orlando for the annual WEFTEC conference, when I heard something on the plane that struck me. As the flight attendant announced the in flight snacks ($3 for a cookie is another discussion), he mentioned “cash is NOT accepted, but debit & credit cards would be convieniently processed.”
I remember not long ago when fast food chains did not accept credit cards and many establishments displayed the “CASH ONLY” signs at the register. I guess it doesn’t necessarily surprise me, as I have shifted towards a prefered method of debit card transactions myself, but I suppose I’m ever fascinated at the speed in which technology and a paperless world has advanced, now taking aim at American currency.
My parents once shared with me a comparison of the desensitizing of society with that of a frog in boiling water; throw a frog in the steaming pot and he will jump out immediately. However, place him in a cool pot and slowly raise the temperature and you will eventually cook him. We often times need to take a hard look within the pot that surrounds us to grasp the magnitude and undeniable influence that technology & communication are creating in front of our own eyes. Be it out of convienience or necessity, I’m finding myself astonished at our advancements on a variety of levels, on a daily basis.
The irony of this scenerio is that I sit currently, writing to this blog from my mobile phone, at 20,000 feet above the earth.
What moments have you had that stamped the arrival of technological change in your life?
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Fans of the frog in a beaker analogy will be happy to see a humorous animation of this principle in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”