People born in 1978 have seen the accumulation of 90% of the world’s information at the age of 30.
The information age has created the age of cynicism. Spam and credit reports, a lifetime of free viagra if you just click HERE. A million Euros in exchange for your social security number. Wire money to my private bank account in
“I love you” is a text message.
Google and Twitters are verbs.
When I came back from Peace Corps in 2005, I found myself overwhelmed by technology. Two years without glowing screens and twittering communications had made me a tech dinosaur. When I saw the "I love you" text message already installed in my phone, everyone seemed so infinitely far away even though they were just one click from my screen.
And now, I twitter, I blog, I google, I facebook. My verbage is riddled with vocabulary courtesy of the World Wide Web.
I notice that communication is so dense, so vast that information now disappears into a black hole of crisscrosses: "Did you get my email?" "Did you see Mike's Facebook status?" "Did you know we have a meeting at noon?"
Overcommunication, information abundance.
Could plenty be scarcity?
Kelley, you are my all-time favorite pessimist. Who is actually very positive most of the time. Can you be a positive pessimist? I don't know. But I'm one who is definitely guilty of building sandcastles.
ReplyDeleteOptimistic Pessimist.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a title.
A collector of titles I am.
And a builer of sandcastles you are.
Thanks for your ever-thoughtfulness.
lol I love it.
ReplyDeleteWe learnt a fact in class the other day (I'm a post grad student from Western Australia) that if we taught a 5th grader everything we knew - it is only something like 5% of what the knowledge they need for the new millennium due to technological advances.
Frikkin interesting.