Where do you want to go today?

Remember that slogan from Microsoft in the 1990′s? I think it was for Windows 95, that much-delayed operating system that seemed in danger of becoming Windows 96. The slogan came up in the context of an excellent article on multitasking. Here’s a quasi-Buddhist extract about “Where to you want to go today?”

…consider that “Where do you want to go today?” was really manipulative advice, not an open question. “Go somewhere now,” it strongly recommended, then go somewhere else tomorrow, but always go, go, go—and with our help. But did any rebel reply, “Nowhere. I like it fine right here”?

And that’s the problem with technolust: it taps into a deep restlessness that is driven by a longing for completeness and connection, yet the objects of our longing can never ultimately take us to those goals. Completeness and connection start by being right here, right now. It’s when we learn to like “here and now” that we find ourselves losing our technolust and finding our happiness.

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