One Reason Why The Technophobe Should Embrace The Internet

One Reason Why The Technophobe Should Embrace The Internet

There are some people who resist technology. Some don't like change, some fear it. They worry about computers being everywhere, about where people's jobs are going, and that last bit is sort of understandable.  It gets a bit silly when they don't stop to think about computers that enable us to save people's lives, or conduct research into improving people's lives, but ignoring that, they generally just don't like having what they know replaced by something new. Whilst I'm a complete anti-technophobe (a techno-PRO-be?), I understand the dislike of change - woe betide any website that changes it layout if I like the current one. But one thing I will never understand is people who fail to embrace the internet, branding it a waste of time where children waste their lives on games and Facebook. Sure, many companies nowadays will only give you an online option, and if you don't know what you're doing this is a genuine problem, but it's not a reason to hate the internet - it just means there's an opportunity presenting itself for you to learn a new skill. You can discover an easier way of getting your grocery shopping done, of learning how to wire a plug, or of communicating with your family in Australia.

And then sometimes you just discover something so inspiring, that you can't help but smile. What better evidence that the internet connects people in positive ways, than seeing three people from different parts of the world record their individual parts of a song, and have them all put together to create something beautiful:


I don't know about you, but I find this sort of thing mind blowing. Really, it's amazing that we can do this. We take it for granted nowadays, but imagine how it must have seemed to tell somebody in the 1980s that we could do this 30 years later.

What is particularly dear to me is that I've heard things that each of these three musicians have done individually on YouTube. I've seen Lara cover many video game and TV themes (including fantastic covers of Game of Thrones and Skyrim), I've seen Taylor do the same, and I've heard Lara and Taylor team up together to cover them. In fact, they've even got some of these on iTunes now. And anyone who has played Skyrim is well aware of Malukah after she published her stunning and haunting cover of 'The Dragonborn Comes' from the Skyrim soundtrack. So to hear these three doing something together is a pleasure that I genuinely feel blessed to be a part of.

So, those who oppose the internet and all it stands for (who probably won't be reading this for that exact fact), I implore you - give yourself five minutes to search YouTube and you'll see what the internet is really about. It's about collaborating and making people smile. It's about putting parts together to make them greater than the sum of the whole. And most of all, it's about showing that wherever you look, there's something beautiful to be found.