Stuff to write on Obama's Inaugaration Day
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I know people keep saying shit has hit the fan, we’re in a recession, times are tough, so maybe I’m just lucky. Maybe we’re all lucky that things can slow down just for a second for us to collect ourselves and figure out what is really important in our lives. I mean up until today, or 10 years ago the only form of communication were beepers or nothing. We had quarters for payphones. Now it’s almost impossible to find a payphone. Today, we’re moving really, really, really fast. We’ve spoken about Global Warming as a crisis but that takes many years of 5.0 liter, 8 cylinder cars and manufacturing to have a melt down. But the economic melt down we’re having today has happened in under 10 years. In 2000 we had a large enough melting. But is this a Technology Crisis we’re having?
So how many Lil Wayne albums did you buy or download? How is technology affecting automation. I can download stuff from virtually anywhere. And I can upload just as easily. RSS feeds mean we really don’t need another human to accept a story, it’s fed right into a system. I’m posting articles using email to numerous systems. This must have had some huge hit on our economy, right? Before we had someone that knew how to get this to plug into that. Now we have a machine. And guess what? That very machine allows you to download, transmit, and burn. Yes, I believe machines have burned a deep trench that have surpassed our economy. In other words, there’s more machines than people doing our jobs.
Today on Facebook I must have seen at least 300 different people sending their opinions. They weren’t working, we all stopped. The machines kept working though sending data non-stop like marching ants. And what do I have now to show for it? An idea. Ha! Now I want a site where anybody can get on and post for the world to see it. A ginormous thread of rants about everything. And how do we capitalize on this? Selling services, services run by the computer. Great. Hit the economy again why don’t we. We keep selling entertainment. But what happens if the services you are selling, like Facebook, you don’t really need. Your latitude for the same is decreased significantly after repeated use. Hence why video games are so hot. People play them, get bored, get another one. But if you have to choose between being online or say buying dinner, dinner would win. That service is more satisfying. And really filling too. So how much technology do you ‘need’? How much meat is there in technology? Well in order for us to prosper we need a heck of a lot more and cooler gadgets that will make us faster, hipper, more eco, blah blah, just freaking cool gadgets. We need something we can strap onto our backs and fly to work in so my friends Shawn isn’t the only pilot. If my insurance rates skyrocket it should be because I’m protecting myself from some harm I may inflict upon myself whizzing around at 60mph in the air or in some bubble car. Something ultra freaking cool worth raising our economy. Not some miracle waffle maker. We need cures, solutions, stuff that will speed things up and clean up. We need more pens that capture digital ink and hopefully one day video and easily let me transport it to other destinations wirelessly. Wait. Do I need these things? Yes. Definitely need the flypack.
Our economy at this state may very well be a product of technology thanks to our ever expansive download collection, streaming, chats, having the DL on friends or fiends via networks, news, school reports, school financial aid, online banking, e-shopping, virtually everything is connected to technology to create and support artificial mechanisms that will take your job.
So? Go farm something. Go outside. Things are going to keep feeling like they are moving faster, but the day still has 24 hours in it. I just hope we can find something that will fix our economy. A cure would be good. I’d pay to help someone feel better. When was the last time we had something to be proud of? Right, today. The inauguration of President Barack Obama.
— Zeus ::)
Jan 21, 2009
