Showing posts with label kindle fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kindle fire. Show all posts

Thursday, October 4, 2012

"Fire" to the books


My sister travelled to the USA 2 months ago to a meeting in Atlanta. So my family and I took the opportunity to buy some things on Amazon and ask the shipping to my sis’s hotel. I bought little and cheap things but my aunt did a really smart purchase. She invested on a “Kindle Fire”.
At first I considered that a kindle was almost unuseful for a 54 years old lady but as soon as the tablet was in her hands, she did her best to learn how to use it. After 2 or 3 weeks she already knew how to buy books and how to check her e-mail from the famous “kindle” I was amazed and I was actually happy for her and her evolution on technology. My little 7 years old nephew that lives with her had to read a book for school and asked me if the book was on the kindle because he didn’t like to read from the paper. It was incredible that a 7 years old boy asked me something like that.  And I realized that MAYBE when my nephew Vicente is 23 years old like me, the printed book won’t even exist and it will be just a piece of collection or something like that.
I am wondering if that’s good or bad for our society, to evolve to an each day more technologized world where essential things in life will be lost year after year and something as simple as a notebook or a book will be part of the past of our lives to leave the machines rule us.