Friday, March 30, 2012

Let me Twitter that for You

The New American Generation has shifted into a world that is now hyperconnected. Compare 2012 to 2004?... "Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype for most people was typo." - Thomas Friedman on "How America Fell Behind"


Technology is accelerating at a relentless pace...

Below is the world's first virtual shopping store that opened in Korea. All the shelves are LCD screens and the customer chooses his/her desired item by simply touching the screen and checking out. The checkout then has all the items already packaged in bags and ready to go.  I present to you, the long-awaited entry/path into an automaton-controlled society where our thoughts and actions are controlled, where the food we eat, the things we buy, our method of leisurely activity and exercise is bottled, packaged, easy-to-use, synthesized through hormones and chemicals, simulated in climate-and-environment-controlled settings, available via Prime or expedited shipping....

"1984" meets "5th element"...




And to think, how "simple" we were just over a decade ago....

I think the picture above says it well. Suddenly a simple "You've Got Mail!"is no longer music to my ears. A decade later, with over three email accounts directing me towards work, law school, and personal commitments, I have only paper mail to look forward to; but this too is anti-climactic, seeing as how "snail mail" paper correspondences nowadays usually consist of bills or solicitations to invest in another interest-seeking, credit-sucking, money-hungry form of plastic freedom that eventually  promotes my adventures in retail therapy...But that's a different story. :)