What Technology Is Teaching Us

Not the most optimal
 device when
it comes to hiding secrets.

Not more than a few months ago, the Kindle Fire came on the market and began selling like hotcakes. I found this article (which strangely enough is no longer available for viewing) a few months back bemoaning some of the downsides to the product. Here are a few quotes I've taken from the article concerning some of the drawbacks to the Kindle Fire:

❝The Kindle Fire, Amazon’s heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. The most disgruntled are packing the device up and firing it back to the retailer.A few of their many complaints: there is no external volume control. The off switch is easy to hit by accident. Web pages take a long time to load. There is no privacy on the device; a spouse or child who picks it up will instantly know everything you have been doing.There will be improvements in performance and multitouch navigation, and customers will have the option of editing the list of items that show what they have recently been doing. No more will wives wonder why their husbands were looking at a dating site when they said they were playing Angry Birds.❞

After reading this article, I began to wonder: What is technology teaching us? That a device most certainly needs to be created so it's compatible with hiding the truth from our spouses.

Reading this made me just a little be angry and sad.

What do you think? What is technology teaching us? (Or perhaps it's just the big communication companies saying that if you need to cheat online at least they've created a failsafe method so your wife and kids don't find out.)