{"id":809,"date":"2015-02-19T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=809"},"modified":"2015-02-19T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:58:07","slug":"adapting-to-the-age-of-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/adapting-to-the-age-of-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting to the Age of Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"
By TREVOR JACKSON\r\n Guest Columnist<\/pre>\n
Last week, I made a trip to Chicago. I\u2019m studying theater, and I planned to go and audition for graduate schools. On Sunday, I woke up at the absolute crack of
\ndawn so I could drive with my father from Monmouth to PDX.<\/p>\n
After the hour drive, 10 minutes to park, 10 minutes to walk to the terminal, and an additional hour of waiting in line (it happened to be Super Bowl Sunday), we approached the Alaska Airlines counter only to find that our flight had been canceled.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, there was another flight in the next two days, and it wouldn\u2019t conflict with my audition. But the situation was nonetheless extremely frustrating.<\/p>\n
See, I still live in the 20th century, and I don\u2019t own a smartphone. On the drive over, if I only owned some sort of smart device, I could have received the cancellation notice ahead of time and saved the trip. But alas, I had no such
\ndevice. And the ironic thing is, my father works for Verizon.<\/p>\n
I decided to purchase for myself a Samsung Galaxy, a tablet computer with a 7-inch screen. Some people, like my father, believe they can be just as productive while \u201cliving-off-the-grid.\u201d But let me tell you: as someone who has made a lifestyle switch in the very midst of the Age of Connectivity, there is no other way to live if you want to count yourself as a part of the American workforce.<\/p>\n
Now, I know the audience I am writing for, and that, quite frankly, I\u2019m preaching to the choir. I would wager that 99 percent of you, the readers, know the immediate benefits of being consistently connected to the internet. How fortunate it is the campus is covered in Wi-Fi signals.<\/p>\n
To those that are wary about how predominant technology has become in our lives, I say \u201cget over it.\u201d Imagine working as a chef in a competitive kitchen, except you\u2019re the only one that has to go cook everything in the fire pit out back. Meanwhile, I\u2019ll stay inside with my industrial stovetop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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