from the top of my tiny mountain, i can see that...
• we're looking at screens – large, small, tiny – more and more.
• we're looking a swatches of paper less and less (i'm contemplating NOT replacing the printer that broke down 3 months ago... big imac screen, a laptop, and a small iphone screen allow me to view or carry virtually any doc! savin' trees!)
• we go online for news rather than wait for 5:30 pm cst and charlie gibson (sorry, charlie!)
• we've all but given up on paper letters, landlines, newspapers, magazines, records, tapes, CDs, wait-and-watch t.v.
• we're gradually giving up paper books for electronic ones (did i write that?)
• when we don't know something, we get online
• when we want to expand our networks, we go online
• when we want to dialog at a distance, we go online
• if we can get a book online, we go online and get it (when we don't have leisure time to enjoy the amazing walls of books at bookpeople!)
• if we're smart about our shopping, we go online first
• when we miss a broadcast and want to revisit an old one, we go online
while publishers slept, millions and millions more became digital publishers and that is only going to continue.
our lives are very different than they were a decade ago.
we work with every digital tool imaginable in our workplace, yet we require our children to pick up and enjoy the tools of the past? (something desperately wrong with that picture...).
if we transform, we survive.
if we don't, we wither and die.
2 comments:
I think we should set up a national challenge to go one week without our digital dependencies. No phones, no computers, no gps....it would take us back to see what we've forgotten!
that's a great idea, annette. only then would we realize just how drastically the world has changed since that past moment lost...
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