NOTHING SO BEAUTY LIKE NATURE AND CHILDS
Magic of today should be chains for tomorrow?.
I ask myself frequently and somehow I do really think so.
Why it could be so?. May be because what it was like magic some years ago for me or for old humans (older people like me now who have known a different way of living without so many devices) it is going to be the natural common life for millions of persons without any king of magic. It is the reality for all of them, without any surprises at all as it has been for me before.
Is it so?...A good question to think about.
Well I think it is, and there are several examples about this my absolute private opinion.
A proof could be to take off the smart phone out from the hands of children or a young boy or girl of sixteen, or thirty …., or even from nearly out of mine or a business man/woman hands. Doing that immediately this person would be lost, without knowing what to do or how to work but it could be applied to a Tablet, the Mp3 or the computer.
Is it any body willing to think a world without television or radio?
What about without electricity? Only for a month?
Without a single car or computer?.
Life is going to be inconceivable without a smartphone, a tablet or a laptop at hands or whichever kind of electronic device since a hundred years to now.
Little or big electronic machines with millions of small pieces of silica it is so common now that there is nothing that could be working without some microchips inside all the new supplies.
Our houses are full of little or big devices with millions of chips, silica sand inside them that make an easier way of living, or at least we do think so.
Sooner than later the big cities of our world could be similar to the big sea beaches with just a hundred thousand millions of silica inside the houses or nearly everyplace of the next future world that we now could imagine.
It is a fact than when magic turns to the usual common way of living the magical surprise is absolutely over and everything starts to depend of technology development.
Who is now surprised about new computers?, a new tablet or smart phone?. or every kind of new devise in an hospital, office or home?.
Me or people of my own age only, but not young so accustomed to see now and then the last supplies or electronics little machines.
Surprises are finished and we await new marvelous smart phones, mp3 gadget or whichever kind of toy that we do not know how much work or play could be done with them without not too much astonishment.
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Frequently we need the smart phone every place at home, in the bath room, in the living room, in the bed room but even outside, at the park, at the friend’s house (just a so not polite attitude by our side), at the theatre, at the table, every place without any kind of good behavior from our part. It´s a crazy way of being slaves of development device as it is.
Where is our politeness? Where is our freedom? . So many questions about what is a nice good life enriched by the new magical things or slavery form of dependency to the new informatics devices.
To me it is clear; informatics science affects our lives but sometime in the wrong way of doing addicts to it instead of giving us more freedom.
Yes, I am an addict too.
It is incredible that me after growing up without nearly anything, I had not a TV apparatus at home, even not a dial phone being a child, not a type machine, not a pickup, not washing machine or frigorific to do the house chores. In fact nothing of the modern things a house has now that makes our life easier, but me having these memories I have now all kind of informatics new devices or toys that makes my life a little more amusing, yes, all kind of new informatics toys that make me astonished about this kind of progress but frequently it makes something to think about future life.
el gatufo
Emiliano - You are so right that the gadgets that we own will soon seem indispensable for us, even as electricity is today for most of the world. We will wonder how we survived without them, but also whether we are really any "freer" due to our dependence on them.
ResponderEliminarJeff
Jeff, I could tell you that my mother was a child the first time she could see electricity lights inside the houses of the little village she was born.
ResponderEliminarFrequently she told us about this memories, even she had a saying in Spanish that says "turn off the lights because we have not olives", but even me have said this phrase to my daughters once I wanted the lights off.
Little candles were full of olive´s oil to give light inside the houses.
After one generation we can not conceive life without electricity.
To me this our society has its heel of Achilles absolutely clear and as much as we look to the future the Achilles´s heel will be more fragile.
Nice to see you dear Jeff and thaks a lot.
Dear Emiliano,
ResponderEliminaryou can add me too in that addicted crew! Despite my age I share your enthusiasm for the new technologies (with the exception of the war weapons!)and it's true that nowadays it's possible to access to information more quickly than in the recent past: so, even to write a... book, a paper beloved book, is hugely more simple now thanks to pc and inhernet! (Do you remember the Jeff's lesson about «inhernet», don't you?)! Seen the BBC series "LIFE ON MARS" and looking at how the habits in the 70s were really different (I was 18 in 1973, oh my gosh), I say to myself: how much better is the life now... And if now something in my view could be worse, people can use the blogs like yours to create the Desembuches movement or OCCUPY ESL-PODCAST!
Un fuerte abrazo,
Sergiño
P.S. This morning, "waking the family up" (let's allow me this poetic license), we found the connection to the web was totally absent! I, my wife and my daughter, all the three were totally upset about that! At 12 a.m. an angel named electrician fixed everything! :D
Real life Sergio, welcome to the "Group of Slaves" where I am one of the first.
ResponderEliminarMay be that is the reason I am writing about his subject, even against it, just because without being trapped by he "web" I do not know what to do.
It is always a tragedy not having electricity or Inernet connection, is it not less freedom?.
But by the other hand society is more open as we know now what is happening everyplace of the world.
I could be both sides of the coing?,I think that´s the reason I love and hate the web, two feelings at the same time.
Thank you Sergio, it is a honor to have you here my friend.