Tuesday Sept. 27th, 2016

Although it seems from the first look an easy task that can be done effortlessly. It ends up being one of the hardest tasks you can ever carry out.  I have tried to perform this task but FAILED. I just could not do it. So, instead of writing my experience of a tech-free day, I would write why I failed, and how we have become tech-obsessed people. I work for a pizza shop as a pizza driver. My responsibility starts from receiving the pizza from the oven (which is technology) and box it (boxes were made through technology), then take the slip (which was printed through technology) see the address and then look up the address on my GPS (which is technology), drive my car (which is technology), call the customer through my phone (which is technology), hand in the pizza and come back to report on the computer (which is technology) that the delivery was successful. While driving, I follow the signs (which are technology), stop at traffic lights (which are technology), drive on asphalt (which is made through technology), knock the door or ring the bell (which both are made through technology). My watch in my hand (technology), my glasses on my eyes (technology). I just could not go one single hour tech-free. The only time I can go tech-free is when I am sleeping. Other than that, it seems impossible.

Now I realize how important technology in my life is, and how we have become rather in a digital life. Now as we are PhD candidates in TESOL & Composition, we have to realize how important it is to orient our attention to technology and digital literacy. We can not ignore it because it is everywhere.

My family would not have endured a day going tech free, since I have a small family and they need to feel safe by contacting me every now and then. I was thinking if I can do this in the future, what impact can happen to me. I am not even sure if I can do it. The question here is, can people really go tech free a 100%? no phones, no computers, no cars, no watches, no screens, no air conditioning, nothing that were not used two hundred years ago?