I never thought a day like this would come. After losing my phone and almost everything that tied me to the digital realm, I finally got a new device that's, well, just a device.
With this new device, I now type really slowly. It has gotten to a point where I almost hate myself for childishly losing my old phone, because my previous device was way sleeker with every touch, and I didn't have to look at the keyboard before I wrote any word.
Let the person who has the best device win.
With the computer age comes the ability to get things done faster, as long as your device functions quickly.
With my new device, I came to a realization that my brain now seems to get pissed when my thumbs can't match its pace.
My brain thinks faster than my thumbs can write.
Now I have to write slowly so I don't have too many errors, which would get tiring to edit later.
At this point, AI seems to be the best option, as I'm getting more and more irritated by how slowly my device operates.
This has a lot to do with the actual screen type, where the hardware used is slow to react to touch, but tech keeps getting better with time.
With all of this came a point for me, because now I am almost thinking of making my brain function slower so that my thumbs can catch up with it and, thus, write down all my ideas without leaving any bit behind.
When the brain operates too fast, there is always some idea that you will leave behind.
That's where proofreading and editing it yourself come in.
I won't be able to recall such ideas when I make them do it, but I still wish it could recall and write what I want without it being the one to do the writing. I'll use it more if it can do that.
My writing is now complicated, and I now spend more time typing like im 10 years behind.
I am now able to start posting, now that I've made my brain think at the same rate that my current device operates. With my brain learning to handle this slow pacing, it made me see why we have become the devices we use daily.
We now think almost at the same pace that they do. This now affects our attention span, too.
The truth is that there is a lot more tied to our device usage than we think, and our brains having to adapt to the pace at which our devices work is what might be happening not only to me.
But one thing is true: new-age innovations are getting faster and faster every day. It's said that fast is now the norm, and therefore we have now made our brains also think fast, which makes them leave some important information behind and unchecked due to how fast we want them to function.
Now, deliveries are made faster, but we still complain that it's slow because we have conditioned our brains to a state where everything needs to move at the pace we want.
It's why a 70-year-old is baffled at why a 17-year-old is so worried about having a fast Internet connection instead of playing football outside with his friends.
No one seems to be thinking slowly these days, making us blind to some vital information that we could have grasped if we functioned more slowly.