Connectivity is important but not every thought should be shared online. I think it is essential that every town and city in the world have access to the Internet. South Korea has the fastest and best Internet in the world. They also have the world’s best healthcare, but you know, priorities. Let’s compare our Internet to theirs, and after crying about how SLOW ours is, we should demand that our Internet speeds and strength increase.
There are various forms of technology that I use to communicate with others. I prefer communicating on my blog here because I have something that I want to say that I cannot shout in a classroom or on the street corner. I think the people that generally do not listen to me in class are quick to turn to this blog to hear my thoughts. There is no shame in it. I know they do. I do like texting friends. I appreciate their random text messages and responses. What started as a blog to merely review films has morphed into a sort of online diary. Sometimes I do forget that it is public, and anyone can find it.
Besides current events that show up on my Google newsfeed, I respond to current events on Twitter. I have an opinion on nearly every part of Oregon politics so whenever something pops up, I give my two cents. I miss living in Portland and reading a Willamette Week and a Portland Mercury paper issue, every week.
The most archaic form of communication that I can remember (besides rotary telephones) is passing notes on actual paper in class. I prefer scribbling on a piece of paper and passing it down a table. Only once have I gotten caught in class passing a note. Every note back then seemed so salacious because there was a good chance of it ending up in the wrong hands.
When I was young and watched Star Trek, I thought I was looking into the future. This led to a few nightmares. With future forms of communication, “Communicators” are now cell phones. “Pads” are now tablets. We don’t have “universal translators”, but we do have apps that translate nearly every language. Giving orders to “Computer” is now replaced with “Alexa.” What other form of Star Trek communication am I still waiting for? Holograms. Soon we will be beaming into boardrooms.
I look forward to all the future communications that we dreamed of yesterday coming true tomorrow.
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