Rabbi Laura Baum: iPhone 5, I-It And I-Thou
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com - Thursday, September 20, 2012
Tishrei is the month in the Jewish calendar that has more holidays than any other: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah are the main ones. But in this Tishrei of the new year 5773, there is an additional holiday. It's a day that many people around the world are looking forward to, including me. On the 5th of Tishrei, corresponding to Sept. 21, there will be a special day which I've dubbed Yom Release of the Apple iPhone 5. I love technology and am looking forward to my iPhone upgrade. Recent studies show that most young adults feel happier when they travel with their electronic devices, and more people worry about losing their mobile computing devices than their wedding rings. Technology is an amazing tool. But there are also concerns about technology. There are those who worry that young people today will not have the long-lost skills of making eye contact or writing in full sentences (and without emoticons). Concerns about technology are not new. There were people in previous generations who worried that their latest technologies, whether the alphabet, the printing press or the television, would erode people's ability to speak and/or think. Long before there were iPads or iPhones, and even before there were iPods and iTunes, there was something called I-It and I-Thou. These were two different types of relationships, as described by philosopher Martin Buber in his 1923 book. An I-It relationship is not a transform
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