This Is Why We Do This
Sometimes I need a reminder why we do what we do. We all have other jobs, some of us work insane hours, others have more than one and some of us go to school. Yet everyday we get up and type out our thoughts to the ether. As much as we are a science fiction and genre blog, we are also science fiction. We are the between generation, raised between the old and the new. In the short course of our lives we have seen technology exponentially expand and grow more powerful. Things that our parents and grandparents thought of as impossible are now possible with a few clicks of the mouse. I have friends from all over the world and we don’t send letters or even emails, no we keep up with each other through facebook and twitter. Blogs and network sites. Our younger cousins and the kids today are growing up in the future. They are a generation raised in a time when skills we learned in school are long past obsolete. A generation where facebook and wikipedia are normal and aren’t even worth thinking about because duh, its just there and its been there forever. Granted with this technology the technological divide between classes becomes more apparent. You need money to access information, and in many ways information is the new currency. Social status is more important in some ways than how much money is in your bank account, yet they also seem to grow together. The more followers you have on your blog the more advertising revenue you get and the more writers you can hire (or finally pay).
We are a generation who watched WarGames and thought wow that is a crazy computer, now our cell phones are more powerful than WOPR. Obviously I’m a technological optimist, and every once in a while I stumble on infodump videos that make me marvel at the world around us. Today I want to share this one with you. Its from the Socialnomics crew.
Also this one from the awesome guys from XPLANE:
