This blogger is constantly reminded that our world is spinning faster and faster away from all that has become known and comfortable. Today, it was a visit to a medical office and a May issue of Smithsonian that brought to this blogger's attention the three dimensional machines that produce products you can actually feel and touch like sculpture. if YOU ARE TO SURVIVE THE MADNESS OF COMPLETE CHANGE, WATCH IT, PREPARE FOR IT AND ULTIMATELY YOU MUST EMBRACE IT AS THE GENERATION OF MILLENNIALS HAVE DONE. That's why they elected President Obama. Unfortunately he's disappointed them as well. ONLY SOMEONE WITH A MAGIC WAND CAN MAKE THIS CHANGE ANY EASIER AND IT WILL HAPPEN !!!!!!!!!!
In the long run in this technological society, governments may rise and fall but it is technology that will make the most changes for you and me. Those changes will come in many ways: jobs, culture, entertainment -as well as the more personal effects on clothing, food, and home. It is a change that boggles the mind, The 3-D technology among other more life affecting medical technology and gene changing are in the forefront of all that will happen in the next hundred years. But don't plan on it being a hundred years. Some of this change will happen almost overnight!!!!!!!!!!
Think back to the computer. What has happened in the last hundred years began slowly but as computer technology strengthened, changes began to happen faster and faster. It was an interesting machine prior to the introduction of the web, capable and providing much easier usage for documents and providing a world of games then WHAMO, THE WEB HAPPENED and lives were instantly broadened and many long trusted and loved fields of endeavor were rapidly changed. ART, LITERATURE, HISTORY, ENTERTAINMENT EVEN COOKING BECAME AN EXPLOSION OF KNOWLEDGE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE. IT WAS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF JOY FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!
ARTISTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICA CELEBRATED A RECOGNITION NEVER BEFORE ACQUIRED. IT WAS THE GLORY DAYS FOR PAINTERS, SCUPTORS, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND COMPOSERS AND MUSCIANS IN THE MID TO LAST PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
WHERE DID IT ALL GO ???????????--AND THIS IS THE DOWNSIDE OF ALL CHANGE--IT WAS QUICKLY CONSUMED AS IF A FIRE HAD OCCURRED AS THE PUBLIC MOVED ON TO OTHER NEW KNOWLEDGE THAT THE WEB- THAT MONEY MAKING ENTITY-GLADLY SPIT OUT--SOME RIGHT -- SOME WRONG BUT ALL IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO CARED.
What happened next is still going on. BOOKS BEGAN TO CHANGE AND NEW AUTHORS SPRANG UP WITHOUT PUBLISHERS BUT THROUGH SOMETHING CALLED ON LINE PUBLISHING AND THE COMPANIES GREW AND CREATED READERS WHO BOUGHT BOOKS ELECTRONICALLY AND THROUGH WEB ORIENTED COMPANIES EVEN CHANGING STANDARD BOOKSTORES INTO WEB COMPANIES TO MEET THE COMPETITION.
MEANWHILE AT THE MOVIES, BIG PRODUCTION COMPANIES FOLDED THEIR WINGS AND BEEN REPLACED BY INDEPENDENTS, THOSE REPLACED BY TELEVISION UNITS CURRENTLY UNDER SEIGE FROM INTERNET DIRECTED SHOWS AND GAMES. A RECENT POPULAR INTERNET GAME ECLIPSED A BIG MOVIE AND TV IS COMPETING WITH MILLION DOLLAR PROGRAMS JUST TO KEEP UP!!!!!!!!!! In case you haven't noticed HOLLYWOOD has been dead for some time.
Eventually, books, bookstores, movies, even TV as we know it will be a part of history AND THAT IS ONLY A MINOR PORTION OF THE VIEW FROM TECHNOLOGY. ALL BUSINESS AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE UNDER SEIGE BY CHANGE OR UNDER PRESSURE TO CHANGE !!!!!!!!!! We are now on the brink of the most major changes in history since the INDUSTRIAL AGE when the farms disappeared and modernization appeared with the factories and major production of goods. WHAT IS GOING TO CHANGE US COMPLETELY IS THAT 'LIL OLE 3-D TECHNOLOGY THAT IS JUST SCRATCHING AT THE SURFACE OF CHANGE LIKE A TINY, ANNOYING ITCH BUT THAT ITCH IS FIXIN' TO TURN INTO A FULL BLOWN RASH OF NEW PRODUCTS MADE BY NEW TECHNOLOGY BY MACHINES THAT PRODUCE CHEAPER, FASTER, AND FUNCTION AS LONERS.
WHOOPS, THERE GOES ANOTHER ROUND OF JOBS. WHOOPS, THERE GOES ANOTHER ESTABLISHED WAY TO CONDUCT LIFE!!!!!!!!!!! THAT LITTLE 'OLE' 3-D MACHINE INTRODUCED TO ALLOW FOLKS TO MAKE LITTLE THINGS AKIN TO CRAFTS IS LIKE THAT LITTLE 'OLE' COMPUTER THAT ALLOWED FOLKS TO PLAY GAMES AND PRODUCE PAPERS EASIER !!!!!!!!!! FEEL A SENSE OF DEJA VU HERE ????????????
LOOK AT THE HEALTH AND HOSPITAL INDUSTRY THAT THIS BLOGGER HOPED WOULD BE ABLE TO CHANGE IN A REASONABLE MANNER - BUT !!!!!!!!! IT'S GOING INTO MAJOR SURGERY THIS YEAR AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT WILL RESULT !!!!!!!!!!! BUT CHANGE IT WILL -- BLEEDING OR NOT -- AND WE CAN ONLY HOPE TECHNOLOGY WILL FIND A CURE !!!!!!!!
You know as well as this blogger that just as the Industrial Age produced miracles of change and abundance so will the Technological Age BUT so will it produce those horrors that future citizens will shake their heads in wonder that all involved could have been so stupid !!!!!!!!!! IT'S A CATCH 22 ACT AND NOT EASY OR REHEARSED.
So this blogger WISHES THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION AND THOSE TO FOLLOW AS WELL AS THOSE CAUGHT IN THE "WEB"
LOTS OF LUCK. This blogger doesn't figure on living to 112 like that gentleman who passed last week so I only can hope that by warnings like this, citizens can better prepare to embrace the best of it, endure the worst of it, and find joy in man's progress.
CHEERS, CONNIE
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