Did you notice it too...? The way Apple's Steve Jobs just drove another nail into Christopher Columbus' coffin...?
With this week's flashy intro to their new iPad, Apple continues our trend toward personal insularity. Along with our iPhones, iPods and Blackberries, we can now put the entire world into the palm of our hand. In another age, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong were trying to reach out and put themselves into the entire world.
Something's happening here. As malls shrink, world cruises diminish, and big-audience events grow fewer, Chicagoans are finding more and more reasons to go out less and less. Nothing's wrong with having the power of the world right in our own hands, but sometimes that world misses us. And what we could be doing for it in its time of need!
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There is nothing like Professional live entertainment which I DO support every chance. I find less and less time for advanced technology. Age has nothing to do with it! HA!
ReplyDeleteHA! But what the hell, Jerry, at this age and stage don't we have the right to pick and choose what we like? Despite what the world may tell us we're supposed to like? Maybe Scrooge wasn't entirely wrong after all...
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