I’m known outwardly as a person who uses and embraces technology and innovation, in fact there are a handful of electronic devices I will never leave home without (cell phone, digital camera, e-reader or netbook, etc.) Lately I have been thinking about the ways things used to be, long before life began to transition into the digital era.  What has happened to life as I once knew it to be?  And perhaps more importantly, has technology improved our lives, or has there been a negative effect because of it? When I was a child, nothing was digital with the exception of digital wrist watches or calculators, both of which were…