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Saturday, May 14, 2005
" ... We Have the Technology"
Viewers ,I've lately come into some technology.
Elly gave me a MP3 player for my birthday which is the most fabulous gadget. Its promises were all true. I've stacked it up and can play it walking to work, through the stereo, can download a song that takes my fancy. I was just listening to the Drummatic Twins that i found online. we here in the Glebe don't have a dance posse so Elly and I don't really know about dance but we know what we like when we hear it .. I probably would've waited a long time to hear about the twins if i didnt have the player and went looking for music and found the music after stumbling around the traps.
Technology is at its best when it opens us to new possibilities. Elly and i were talking about this the other night as we were out running around Darling Harbour - a nice run. Specially early on Saturday night as the players come out.
And we were talking about how we choose to spend our money. Lately on MP3, a new computer, video camera, it's a lot of consuming but the way we look at it is, and i think Elly put it best, saying something like - "we spend to create, not for comfort" .. we want to do something with what we buy. Learn somethin', make something, remember something. I'm starting to sound like a Microsoft ad but it's not like we're buying a car. Not that there's anything wrong with buying a car. I once bought one.
And we talked in between breaths about the internet and about how the info we can get our hands on is infinitely more than the encyclopaedia sets they used to sell at the Royal Show. About the benefits and the pitfalls of all that information. When does information become knowledge ? I thought I'd throw that in. Please let me know if you know when.
And then as our breathing became increasingly laboured we spoke about the communities and different ways of connecting ( and disconnecting but, hey, we were being positive) the internet has gifted us. Think blogging, think medical suppport groups, think online forums, think dating sites. The net has even redeemed the previously ireedemable and untrendy notion of people meeting for sex through some organised set-up devoted to um, people meeting for sex. Think RedHotPie, think AMM, think Alt.com, think, um, i'm getting carried away. And the net also has done other good stuff that's not pornographic, too.
"We can do things on our camera and with our MP3's that would've needed a small studio back in the 70's," we gasped as we ran over Wattle Street up the hill into Ultimo. Think http://www.mixman.com, think windows movie maker ..
Our generations ( X, Y and whatever the latest is called ) are the first to have access to this sort of technology. Without wanting to sound cult-ish, but, hey, i like to sound occasionally cultish, it makes us a new sort of people who, still, in a sense, walk among unbelievers. There are some people more "connected" than others. Some people that look at the world through different but equally worthy glasses.
There are some people that use too many metaphors. And who should stick to pointing there readers in the direction of something like, http://www.wired.com or http://www.salon.com where you can read this sort of gear for free. More nudity ! More nudity !
Elly gave me a MP3 player for my birthday which is the most fabulous gadget. Its promises were all true. I've stacked it up and can play it walking to work, through the stereo, can download a song that takes my fancy. I was just listening to the Drummatic Twins that i found online. we here in the Glebe don't have a dance posse so Elly and I don't really know about dance but we know what we like when we hear it .. I probably would've waited a long time to hear about the twins if i didnt have the player and went looking for music and found the music after stumbling around the traps.
Technology is at its best when it opens us to new possibilities. Elly and i were talking about this the other night as we were out running around Darling Harbour - a nice run. Specially early on Saturday night as the players come out.
And we were talking about how we choose to spend our money. Lately on MP3, a new computer, video camera, it's a lot of consuming but the way we look at it is, and i think Elly put it best, saying something like - "we spend to create, not for comfort" .. we want to do something with what we buy. Learn somethin', make something, remember something. I'm starting to sound like a Microsoft ad but it's not like we're buying a car. Not that there's anything wrong with buying a car. I once bought one.
And we talked in between breaths about the internet and about how the info we can get our hands on is infinitely more than the encyclopaedia sets they used to sell at the Royal Show. About the benefits and the pitfalls of all that information. When does information become knowledge ? I thought I'd throw that in. Please let me know if you know when.
And then as our breathing became increasingly laboured we spoke about the communities and different ways of connecting ( and disconnecting but, hey, we were being positive) the internet has gifted us. Think blogging, think medical suppport groups, think online forums, think dating sites. The net has even redeemed the previously ireedemable and untrendy notion of people meeting for sex through some organised set-up devoted to um, people meeting for sex. Think RedHotPie, think AMM, think Alt.com, think, um, i'm getting carried away. And the net also has done other good stuff that's not pornographic, too.
"We can do things on our camera and with our MP3's that would've needed a small studio back in the 70's," we gasped as we ran over Wattle Street up the hill into Ultimo. Think http://www.mixman.com, think windows movie maker ..
Our generations ( X, Y and whatever the latest is called ) are the first to have access to this sort of technology. Without wanting to sound cult-ish, but, hey, i like to sound occasionally cultish, it makes us a new sort of people who, still, in a sense, walk among unbelievers. There are some people more "connected" than others. Some people that look at the world through different but equally worthy glasses.
There are some people that use too many metaphors. And who should stick to pointing there readers in the direction of something like, http://www.wired.com or http://www.salon.com where you can read this sort of gear for free. More nudity ! More nudity !
