I was reconsidering my recent trips around Europe, to be honest, I felt that they had become more routine and the motivation for a new trip was not encouraging. I use the internet to organize my trips and explore the places I visit. check for everything on search tools like Google and others, look at the details, and compare hotels, restaurants, and even dishes before ordering them at the restaurant table. So, every time I visit a place — or see a dish — for the first time, it is not really the first time, because I have probably seen it during my search. And here I ask myself: How would the experience be if I actually saw it only that time?
I know that without technology, my journey would not have been as organized and diverse, but at the same time, I feel that I have lost a part of the depth of the experience. It is the nature of wonder that it requires a certain degree of ignorance, mystery, or lack of clarity so that when what you have been looking to see is revealed to you, you are amazed.
Summoning this sense of wonder will become increasingly difficult as we progress technologically. What if technology could allow you to experience the scent of a perfume in its advertisements? Or the taste of a dish on the menu of a new restaurant you want to visit? What if virtual reality advanced so quickly that you could see everything you would see in London without actually having to travel there?
Without the feeling of astonishment, we will not see what is behind the fence, we will not live childhood moments in experiencing something for the first time, and we will lose one of the most important parts of a complete life that gradually diminishes with the development of technology.
