Recently Newsweek website published an article by Daniel Lyons which bashes modern technology, screams as it's users, and preaches doom and gloom. Lyons assumes that people waste their time absorbing the vast amounts of information available to us and don't do anything, invent things, or think for ourselves. His claim that we are "busy zombies" makes him sound out of touch with what's going on in the world. With the new adoption of services like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr by more and more people, on a surface level you might have grounds to make that claim, but dig a little deeper and you'll see people connecting, communicating, and ultimately making, inventing, and thinking for themselves in every corner of the globe. The internet and always being connected are tools, and yes, people forget that sometimes. But those that know how to harness it's power and have the self-control to not let it take over their lives are basking in the sun of glorious innovations in technology, changing markets, new ideas, and almost limitless information. So I say cheers to the digital age and cheers to the hard working designers, developers, and engineers who work to make our lives easier and better connected instead of cluttered and more complex.

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