Are you lost in the world like me!
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 7:06 pm
When I was growing up color TV was just becoming popular. Some may remember the familiar maxim, "In Living Color." Woa! Was that not great. We were just getting use to color photography. Of course, those on the forum in their twenties or younger a rolling over laughing. No fear, I'm laughing with you. After all, age is a malady of brain not the mind.
If TV was the biggest invention of the early part of the 20th century, we can safely declare the computer the most important discovery of the latter part of the century. This brings us to the early part of the the 21st. In modern times its the smartphone that reigns.
I refuse to have a smartphone. Just don't want one or saddle myself with a technology I have never missed. Yes, I carry a cell phone, but it's one of those Star Trek deals. I say hello, I say goodbye, and put it away. And I never answer it when I'm talking to someone. They usually look at me like I'm insane. "Hey, your phone is ringing! You not going to answer it?" When I tell them, No, I'm talking to you at the moment, they just look at me like I'm crazy. How Ironic. No, I don't dance to the tone of my phone. And if someone answers their phone while I am talking to them, and they don't warn me that it is important that they take the call, and pull it out of their pocket, I walk away, and keep walking.
Which brings me to the video below.
I remember black and white cartoons. I lived with them as a child. Now I live with the nuisance of the smartphone. Such a valued tool. Yet the perfect zombie groomer. The cartoon in the video below is very telling. It is also very well done and powerful. It's a new release by Moby. Moby is Richard Melville Hall, a song writer. The song is called "Are you lost in a world like me." Lots of Moby's stuff has a techno beat to it. He's very progressive and a brilliant musician. It also sends a commanding message. If you are not into the music mute the sound and the video is still worth watching. Brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8
If TV was the biggest invention of the early part of the 20th century, we can safely declare the computer the most important discovery of the latter part of the century. This brings us to the early part of the the 21st. In modern times its the smartphone that reigns.
I refuse to have a smartphone. Just don't want one or saddle myself with a technology I have never missed. Yes, I carry a cell phone, but it's one of those Star Trek deals. I say hello, I say goodbye, and put it away. And I never answer it when I'm talking to someone. They usually look at me like I'm insane. "Hey, your phone is ringing! You not going to answer it?" When I tell them, No, I'm talking to you at the moment, they just look at me like I'm crazy. How Ironic. No, I don't dance to the tone of my phone. And if someone answers their phone while I am talking to them, and they don't warn me that it is important that they take the call, and pull it out of their pocket, I walk away, and keep walking.
Which brings me to the video below.
I remember black and white cartoons. I lived with them as a child. Now I live with the nuisance of the smartphone. Such a valued tool. Yet the perfect zombie groomer. The cartoon in the video below is very telling. It is also very well done and powerful. It's a new release by Moby. Moby is Richard Melville Hall, a song writer. The song is called "Are you lost in a world like me." Lots of Moby's stuff has a techno beat to it. He's very progressive and a brilliant musician. It also sends a commanding message. If you are not into the music mute the sound and the video is still worth watching. Brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8