{"id":1534,"date":"2015-02-02T07:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2015-02-01T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T21:29:14","slug":"the-problem-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-problem-with-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1416424312427-baefa7707d85.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1416424312427-baefa7707d85-300x229.jpeg\" alt=\"photo-1416424312427-baefa7707d85\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1416424312427-baefa7707d85-300x229.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1416424312427-baefa7707d85-1024x780.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1416424312427-baefa7707d85.jpeg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so many cool things about technology. To be living in this time you might feel lucky. If you&#8217;re someone like me, who lives with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/chronicdisease\/\" target=\"_blank\">chronic disease<\/a>, your literal life may be impacted by the advancements technology brings. I am thankful.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a problem with technology.<\/p>\n<p>As the advancement has moved at warped speed, so has the decline in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.healthways.com\/2015\/01\/are-your-employees-hung-over-from-the-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\">state<\/a> of human beings. The state of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>integrity<\/li>\n<li>wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>economics<\/li>\n<li>status quo<\/li>\n<li>culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above 5 are just my mine. Would you add something to the list? Do you agree? Do you see the trend? Do you see the danger?<\/p>\n<p>I met with a development officer from a local university a few weeks ago. The research group she helps is doing some really intriguing things in the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/diabetesresearch.osu.edu\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\">diabetes care<\/a>, more specifically finding a cure. Their work runs the gamut, from islet cell therapy to using 3d printing as a tool to further expand breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>By the time she had completed her story, my head was spinning. It gave me hope and it made me pause.<\/p>\n<p>What good is the work if beneficiaries are determined to kill themselves despite the prospects of a better day?<\/p>\n<p>I told the development officer that some of the dollars raised should be used to fund solving the problem of poor choices. Its the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/800_pound_gorilla\" target=\"_blank\">800 pound gorilla<\/a>. Would solving that problem fix everything? I&#8217;m not smart enough to say, but it&#8217;s clear much of what plagues us inside our head would be improved dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>This <a title=\"Telling Lies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/telling-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\">irony<\/a> didn&#8217;t begin yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many cool things about technology. To be living in this time you might feel lucky. If you&#8217;re someone like me, who lives with a chronic disease, your literal life may be impacted by the advancements technology brings. I am thankful. However, there is a problem with technology. As the advancement has moved&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,6,1002,7],"tags":[1731,128,1730,1097,1729,823,180,1702,1727,1728,1570,1005,240,17],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-learning","category-webtech","category-wellbeing","tag-800-pound-gorilla","tag-choices","tag-chronic-disease","tag-diabetes","tag-diabetes-care","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-irony","tag-problem-with-technology","tag-state-of-human-beings","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-well-being","tag-wellbeing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}