It sometimes seems silly for us to worry about becoming overly dependent on technology. You'd think "worst case scenario, I can always go back to the way things used to work." Today's revelation of the iPhone alarm bug prompts us "what do you do when a technology you rely on stops working?"
For those unfamiliar, Apple has announced that the iPhone's alarm program does not recognize the daylight savings time change on repeating alarms. What this means is that as people with iPhones wake up on Monday morning all across the world, they'll do so one hour late. Read the story here.
After hearing this, I thought "OK, as long as I know about it, I can set a different alarm." Then a weird thought hit me, I don't have another alarm clock. For years, I've relied upon my cell phone as my morning alarm: it's always with me, I don't have to remember to set it, and the wakeup sound doesn't make me want to hurt someone. Sure I have other clocks, but none of them have alarms. What to do?
An alarm clock. It seems so simple until you don't have one. It's easy to become overly dependent on a technology. Assuming you're acting rationally, that technology will make your life better, but you should always have a backup plan. It's why I'm headed to the store to buy a cheap alarm clock.
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