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The Tide is Turning Against Technology
Australia’s Social Media ban is a first
I received a golf watch last Christmas. In my first game, the following season, I dutifully charged the watch and added the course map to the accompanying app on my phone. When I arrived at the course preparing to tee off, the watch software gave notification that an update to the most current version was needed. Luckily that update loaded before our tee off.
But then the watch had to synch with GPS. By this time, we had to tee off and any benefit from said watch went unrealized. The next time I used it, I had to repeatedly log in to my phone to register my score (which I would have rather sent to the dustbin of history). Finally, I got fed up of constantly having to type in scores and returned to the old fashioned analog scorecard.
Golf watches and apps aren’t the only technology interfering with a day on the links. One of my regular golf buddies, told me how his last father’s day golf game was effectively ruined by his son’s pausing for incessant phone calls. They ended their game in an argument. One of the unfortunate aspects of carrying a cell phone is that you are deemed to be always on call.
That cell phones are not an aid but a barrier to communication has become a widely recognized truth. The presence of a distracting device can…
