The air port was bustling with passengers headed for flights; with time to kill before I boarded a few hours of people watching seemed appropriate. Spotting a chair I sat down to observe, it began the same as I scanned the surroundings looking for entertainment. Everyone went about their lives, unaware of the eye by which they were being followed, but something was different about this trip from the one I took a few years ago. There was no frantic parent attempting to calm board screaming child, rude teen arguing with anything placed before it or lady full of stories trying to strike up a conversation. It seemed there was less human interaction, everyone seemed… distracted.
I began searching for what was stealing the comical moments of people watching. In chairs everywhere Parents sat staring into laptops busy with work handing over their iphones to their children. Teens slouched with music streaming into their ears updating facebook in-between text messages eliminating any possibility of the lady full of stories to striking up a conversation, but even she waited with eyes glued to a kindle. The culprit of the silence did not take long to find as devices were found in almost every pair of hands regardless of age.
Technology has done much to eliminate the boredom of waiting, but in doing so it has decreased human interaction. The extent it will continue to drift in person interaction is not known , but it is evident a great deal of our time has been devoted to the different forms of technology. With so many available, it has become so easy to find ourselves hidden behind our makes of electronics.
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