Hare KrsnaIn these days of computers, cell phones etc how many devotees can live without these things? Even for a moment?How many of us are actually addicted to these things for hours a day? How have these devices actually  improved the  quality of our lives? How many of us know the radiation risks associated with using these devices  for hours daily? Or even the mental pollution?
Who even cares anymore?
Below I found a nice cartoon that portrays the actual effects of these addictions. The fellow with the BOOK is trying to pump out all the apps that the person has “digested” in hopes he will be able to breathe again-normally without computer technology and electronics.
I see the “book” as Srila Prabhupada trying to pump out of us all the nonsense ideas we have ingested in this lifetime, what to speak of thousands of other lifetimes.
Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur has written that the more one is entangled with electronics and machines the more he is being drowned by Kali Yuga.
And Srila Prabhupada tells us….

June 22 1969 New Vrndavana

So our main business is how to improve Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We should not divert our attention in any other material condition of improvement. That is actually not improvement. It is simply illusion, that “I am making improvement.” What improvement? Suppose you are earning now, say, five hundred dollars per month. If you earn, say, five million dollars, so then what? Will you eat more than four cāpāṭis? (laughter) You’ll eat the same four cāpāṭis. And you’ll occupy the same six feet bed. You may acquire the whole property of West Virginia, (laughter) but you’ll have to lie down on six feet. (laughter) That’s all. And you’ll have to eat four cāpāṭis. So this is māyā. This is māyā, “I am improving.” What you are improving? You’ll not be taller. You’ll not be great eater, nothing of the sort. Whatever you have already, you’ll have so the same thing. You see?