Ariend of mine last night joked with me why nothing has changed except for hair and shoes since we were kids. I guess he’s right. There’s very little that has changed, at least in visible and tangible terms. Sure, technologies have accelerated things, but really, not even hair is that different (I had the sort of mod over the one eye skater look in 6th grade). But it’s not good to generalize, i guess. So here are a few things that may be of some interest, at least in terms of accelerating tendencies.
sound as a weapon=though this was conceived of as during WWI, and perhaps even before (yes, you greek heads, the Sirens come to mind), it sure is in action now. This sound weapon has been deployed many times, but critically, it has been sent to the Katrina victims as a present of crowd control.
friends as pictures= flickrgraph. Sure, we all think of our social networks as straight lines with something at the end, like a ball or a circle. but now, our straight lines can be our friends’ pictures! Why visit your friends when you can bring their pictures closer…distance is magnified as proximity simulation is intensified?
tracking your hearing=better ad placement for pod cast masters. Why not? More is better, or so they say. Audible adds that special something that open source just seems to keep ‘forgetting.’ Still, though, wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could be a dj of their podcast, and make a living off it?
b sure to check out the undivided blog as well, as leftenant and others have been boiling the latest pot roasts of knowledge and opinion…
ok, more soon…
Right, also the Internet has not changed much over the past 15 years. So, at least. says Phil Agre and it makes sense to me. At the heart of it nothing has changed.
-t