Technology = no arms?!?!?!?!?

This is just a random blog, but I figured it had something to do with technology so I am writing it. So yesterday I was at a company and I had to check in to the front desk. The lady there was extremely nice and greeted me with a smile, but then randomly would start talking......I figured she was talking on the headset she was on, but man that is confusing.

So I have a bluetooth headset that I use when I am driving or when I need to have long conversations (mainly with the lady discussing why I am at school so much). Any case, I know how they work and to answer a call majority of times you have to put the button on the side of your headset to answer, if not you have an auto answer thing, what I just think it is weird. So as I was looking at her confused whether she is talking to me or someone on the phone, I figured she had an auto answer.....well she did, but not what you think!!!

The actual telephone that she was using had this mechanical arm that would lift the receiver off the hook when the phone rang and hang the phone up when the phone call was done. This was amazing and I just sat there staring, the lady probably thought I was crazy, but in any case I was sitting there like a 5 year old kid enj0ying this mechanical arm go up and down and up and down and up and down...........you get the idea.

This made me think, with all the technological conveniences that we have in our lives, have we forgot to use our basic human functions. I am not saying that the lady forgot to use her arms, but seriously, we often rely so heavily on technology that we find it to be a necessity in our lives. The question is, when you leave your house and forget your phone on our dresser, does it feel as though you have lost an appendage? So times move and times change, we see the need out there, but in the time of these changes our views of what is a need and what is a want is clouded by what is convenient.

Technology has allow for us to do many great things; share information faster, save millions of dollars in planning, and the list goes on and on. But business innovation is driven by us with the aid and understanding of technology.

But in all seriousness.......is it too hard to put the button on the side of your headset?!?!??!?!?