Human Downsizing:Because Of Technology

Use a tool lose your place. From primitives who tinkered tools to todays smart phones., humans have relentlessly distanced themselves from the earth they walk. Corporations downsize payrolls because of software- piloted machines. Workers somewhat compensate by downsizing their life. They diminish expectations and engage an iPhone. There on the small screen is a virtual life that is free. Free from gravity and obligation. Virtually any voyage can be had. Its an experience that never fulfills. There are no smells. There is no sun. There is no rain.There is no breeze.

Can We Have Skype & iPhones & Media Romantic Moments?

Microsoft announced it bought money-losing Skype for $8 billion. That's not the way Alexander Graham Bell started. CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft was trying to be gushingly happy about the marriage. But what does an overworked, dull dog geek know about communications at the personal level? Sure Skype has 170,000,000 users but that didn't stop Apple or Google from dominating personal communicators in spite of Skypes lead. No it's not about stuff it's about seamless personal comfort when using the stuff.

Sorry Steve but not all the players in communcation devices will succeed. And why should they. It turns out that for every talk-happy user of hand held devices there are many voyeurs who like to watch and listen. Whether its Facebook or Twitter or private conversations there are predators in many forms. Some are scavengers for information that can be resold. Some are sexual creeps who are looking for gratification at a base level or criminal level. In either case the hapless user may regret being open and gabby. Privacy seems to be a personal no mans zone. Avoid privacy says Steve Jobs. Avoid privacy says the baby faced pair at Google. And now Steve Ballmer convincingly joins the anti-privacy movement. Who would want to confide in Steve Ballmer?

With privacy slipping away one of the casualties will be romanticism. Romantics by definition avoid public glare. Romanticism has been replaced with light or heavy pornography in all its forms.

iPhone Users Advisory

iPhone users should compare two cans connected by a string as an alternative. Only emphasis will be heard. Keep it cheap and simple. 

iNeverDie: Apple's Next Killer App

Apple's iPhone debut was featured on the net and in daily publications. Gadget junkies lined up, then bought, then assumed the postion. They stared down. Fixated, they left their life in the real world and headed for a virtual life on the small screen of iPhone.

Here's a suggestion for the Apple engineers. Apple should introduce the next killer app for iPhone. It could be titled iNeverDie. It's only logical that since so many people forgo the real world for the virtual world it would be appropriate for them to leave behind a virtual incarnation of themselves when they die. Surely there exists rudimentary artificial intelligence that could be programmed with the dead persons voice. An archive of answers, conversations and even jokes could be pre-programmed by the invidual before he/she dies. It doesn't have to be memorable conversation so as to make the virtual experience more realistic.

Relatives and virtual friends could save some funeral expenses if they virtually deny the death by not having a formal service. Only the removal and disposal of the body would be required. That's much cheaper.

iPhone: First General Message

What good is an iPhone without a message?

Well to paraphrase Paddy Chayefsky's character Howard Beale in the 1976 movie "Network", Howard says," I want you all to reach for your iPhone and contact the telephone number or e-mail address on your screen and say ''' Fuck you Bush, Cheney and Congress, we will only have war by a majority vote in a NATIONAL REFERENDUM'''.




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