A New Avenue

Oh my oh my. There is a new world, quite literally at one's finger tips. That's right. I am writing you for the first time on a bus via my blackberry. What a world we live in. A world that is dominated by invisibility.

Wireless technology has always boggled my mind. The transfer of data and information between machines through an avenue which is invisible to the human eye. But the data is not "new" information. Rather, it is the same information that has always been transferred by humans through contact and since the beginning of time. Now our computers are brain-like extensions of ourselves which those in the "developed" world, global north, seem to nourish more and more everyday. Sometimes even more so than our own minds! And of course this is only so true because most knowledge we expect our computers to retain (not access) must go through our minds too. The difference lies in what we let computers substitute for us. For example spelling, phone numbers, even directions now. Let's hope everyone is always taught the sun rises in the east, or we all may become very lost.

So not all of this makes sense but I don't expect it to. It is to create new thought. And I wanted to comment how I was on a bus and wanted to speak so I worte. And more appropriately, I typed to myself.

An interesting quote to ponder...spoken by an US American futurist, Alvin Toffler. "Those who will be illiterate in the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who refuse to learn, unlearn and relearn".

Sometimes I wonder if I should load my blog with popular quotes and the most frequently searched words on google so that my blog will appear on searches and people will read it...the future power of tagging. But there is no real need for that right now. I just wanted to write for a while. Paz!