Kind of a cryptic title, right? Give or take, that’s what I was going for. The subject matter is equally unclear, yet incredibly fitting for my blog, perhaps more so than any of my past writing here. Mostly I write about tech and PC gaming, with the occasional music review, political rant, or automotive coverage. Overall, I’ve got the Tech side of things pretty well covered. What about the + Lifestyle stuff? It’s my goal to create an ongoing discussion and analysis how how technology increasingly becomes part of everyday life - not just for the nerds out there, the fan-boys and the early adopters and the computer geeks, but for everyone else. How does technology affect the luddites - people who have largely avoided technological advances? Some even go out of their way to remain “offline,” as it were.Despite their best efforts, technology is an intrinsic part of our world. It advances inexorably, permeating every part of life until eventually you cannot have one without the other. Technology is, at times, invasive; it is dispassionate, it doesn’t care if it helps or hurts you, whether it has given you a job or taken one away. It just is. The closest biological approximation to technology might be a virus - its sole purpose is propagation (from a certain, anthropomorphized point of view). It advances slowly in some areas, and with blinding speed in others; regardless, it continues to spread and evolve.One of the more recent examples of technology’s pervasiveness is Google Street View. You might not have seen any yet, but Google has vehicles roaming the streets of major cities worldwide, each with large photographic apparatuses (I wish apparatii were the plural) attached. they photograph the cities in - y0u guessed - “street view,” literally what places look like from the street.Incidentally, the cars themselves have become something of a meme. The hunt for Google Street View cars is a hobby for some people; there are even websites dedicated to trac...