Has technology traveling on Destroyed?
If you have ever read the comments on any article on travel technology, you probably found someone who insisted that the trip device cheapen experience. It's just "a weak excuse to your old 9-to-5 consumers themselves, scared to stay by educating travel for" by a reader of this site. This is to make a simple argument when you see travelers sitting glued to a table on their smartphones or MacBook. Nobody seems very social.
by us tethered to life keep back home, has technology robbing us of the chance to make real connections on the road? With phones in our faces, we are now less likely that this exciting, unexpected moments we have before longed to our adventure?
As tech writers clearly loves technology, but I think this is to examine a value output.
Poke his head in a hostel common room in 2015, one would not realize it. Of 20 years ago Gone are the small groups of backpackers cards to play, read books and share stories. Instead seems Facebook and blue logo of a dozen smartphones updated as status and photo albums are each to be at home, to know about the wonderful time to be had. I have to take account of an error, if I spent one hour in a hostel and had not made a new friend. It is still not impossible to make that happen -. But it is much easier if the Wi-Fi is
I miss in a position to strike a conversation with another traveler, with no need to pull away from their Instagram feed. Despite hundreds of applications to combine very promising, "Travel" and "social" smartphones and tablets are largely responsible for making us less social when we travel to keep us distracted from our devices.
It is even worse when we go outside. If we have mobile data, means a stream of messages checking we are not immersed in the moment. If we do not, does the temptation for a Wi-Fi signal to check, much the same thing. Long journeys are a question of how much battery life is present and how many TV shows have been downloaded, rather than the people and places around us.
With a map of the whole world in your pocket and a little blue dot to tell us where we are, it is easy to lose our spontaneity. Getting lost while driving can be terrifying, fascinating, and his eyes be open - often all at the same time -. and happens to stop by technology that we miss all the good and bad that goes with it
[So, with all these drawbacks, it is obvious that the technology and travel do not mix, right? Should not we all leave our units at home and on the road with only a guide and an open mind, the shackles of our iPads and laptops throw for an enlightened experience?
not so much.
I without technology traveled in the late 0's for years, and although I miss the simpler times sometimes, I would not return them. As much as I tell the story of the day, as I find by my girlfriend on an Italian train and spent the next 8 hours is not capable of being separated, it ruined our limited time in Venice. where A quick call or Facebook message would have us our day back.
I love that my mobile has replaced my alarm clock my flashlight, and I do not need more to a walkman and a half dozen mixtapes to wear to my favorite songs on to hear the street. I'm damn glad I can, without an international phone call to check my bank balance. While I wait again in the sun, stood for an hour near the Zambian border Packages redeem check, I am now to get into the situation in all over the world almost under a minute money from the nearest ATM.
When I moved to London 15 years before, I went everywhere armed with only a paper map. Return in the past month, I was amazed, I saw how much of London on foot. With phone in hand, I did not think twice about my feet. I knew how long it would take to travel and what routes would me to my destination. I doubt that I would have done the same in 1999, it is not that I have not - but I would not have. The fear of losing my way, or not arrive on time stopped me. Technology has made it easier not only lost, but also to find the way.
Although the pink memories sometimes me longs travel days for this technology, I would not go back to them. I can still get as much challenge as I like with a smartphone in your pocket, turn only through him. The road less traveled is often the better, but sometimes all I want without resorting previously a three-hour adventure a decent meal.
As with most other things in life, balance keys. It is good to have half an hour on the phone, checking emails or chat with your mom, but then put it away for you to the people to speak. Buy your flights while lying in bed, but do not worry, turn up somewhere without plans. By all means a few photos of the Taj Mahal, take to show your friends, but do not spend more than 20 minutes to achieve the perfect selfie before composing it. Keep yourself safe in foreign cities, but let yourself be transferred to the unexpected, if your gut tells you
technology has not completely ruined trip -. It's just made it easier, more accessible and more secure than ever. What they can do, though, the experience is to reduce, if you let it.
So do not let it.
The gadgets are just a tool to travel more, like a backpack or a decent pair of shoes. You are not a necessity, and they are not always improve your trip -. In fact, it will make it far less interesting if you are attached to them
There are always incredible moments waiting for the road discovered and they do not go on Facebook to find. They belong to the people, places in plain sight hidden, food and culture, wherever you're visiting. No matter how much technology you have in your backpack that has not changed.
Use immerse your laptop, smartphone, tablet and camera when it will make your time on the road easier, then turn all by itself at the moment.
What do you think? Has technology our trips better or rob us to make a deeper experience?
Dave runs too many adapters, a website dedicated to technology for travelers. An outsider, as long as he can remember, he was in IT for 15 years. Now based out of a backpack long Dave writes about traveling and Tech from anywhere with halfway decent internet and great views. You can also use it on the life of a find in long-term travelers conversation What is Dave doing
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