"Old School" is not a bad thing....

Technically speaking, I am way out of touch. I still have Windows 98, a 35mm camera, and I don't own an Ipod. I have never gone to youtube and watched videos, and I don't even know how to burn a CD. (not that I could on my computer).
Sometimes, it bothers me that I have not kept up, but mostly I'm ok with it.
I just watched on the news some kid that installed a video camera in his car and then basically baited a cop to pull him over and have an altercation. The cop got way out of control, and the kid put the video on youtube where millions have viewed it and he is now on CNN.
I find this pathetic. This kid prearranged his 15 minutes of fame. The cop is now on suspension and the kid is somewhat a hero in the youtube world.
Nothing is by chance anymore.
I don't mean to be one of those "I walked 10 miles in the snow" kind of people. I believe in modernization and someday hope to upgrade my computer or buy a digital camera.
However,it is my belief that socially our society has gone to hell. Technology has it's advantages without a doubt. It allows me to put my rantings on my blog for one thing, but I see things getting kind of scary.
Soon, we will just be Stepford Humans walking around like Zombies. We will not know how to communicate without a device and noone will ask me how my day is going or wonder how the old guy on the corner became homeless. They won't know the girl who works at Starbucks just got married to a man with a 2 yr old child, or that the Lawyer on the 8th floor is kind of a racist or that the kid who works the U-scan at Fred Meyers hates his job. These are things that are only learned by conversing with people.
This may not be useful information, but does all information have to be useful?
jb