How I Learned to Trust in Technology

It takes me awhile to adopt new technology. In my teens I remember seeking out a Sony Walkman tape player when everyone else was grabbing portable CD players. Why did I choose a tape player? It didn't skip. Walking to and from high school while carefully holding your brand new CD player to keep it from skipping every 10 seconds seemed silly. I wanted something rugged. Something that could bounce around in my backpack and not miss a beat. Something that proved itself time after time and has been around the block.

Today, my music device is my phone. I don't store any songs on it and all the music I listen to is streamed over the internet. It seems like everything is online nowadays. It's online, not public--there's a difference. It's information that only I can see and that I choose to share. Sure, someone at the company that is housing my information can see it too, but do I know them? Do they care who I am? Nah, probably not. I'm just another data-set to them. They get to see what kind of music I like. Big deal. Sure, it takes some trust to have your data with another company but to move forward you have to start trusting people and trust in the products they've created that make our lives easier. I want to be able to listen to any song, from anywhere, that won't skip when I play it. The ability to work and to check on something wherever I am. We just need to learn to trust the companies that we work with. If they start doing something we don't like we move on and we take what we choose to share with us. 

Written by Frank Basile, Sales Engineer at MerusCase