Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Will the world ever be as big?


Microsoft Sustainability from Kray Cédric on Vimeo.

Just saw this video. Microsoft's vision for the future. Intelligent surfaces. Surfaces that can communicate, interact with other devices, transfer data, visualize data, sense physical quantities, basically whatever a computer can do and then more ... and then even more. This is what the geniuses at Microsoft think is the future. Intelligent surfaces. There will be no input device but yourself. All your hand gestures will be captured and intuitively reacting surfaces will respond. Just a blink of an eye will change the picture to next. Just a wave of your little finger will turn the page of the surface book you might be reading. Information will literally be at your fingertips. I think they got this very idea from that saying. "Information at your fingertips." Literally.
But my cynical mind as always forced me to ask. Is all this good for humanity. Was it much better when there were just maps to move about. Is it good to know what people are doing in a Japanese mall at this very moment. Is it good to know what your girlfriend or wife or mom is shopping for? Is that necessary? Is it good to know how to give mouth to mouth to an 80 year old if he/she has a heart attack on the streets of NYC? Wouldn't it be better to let him/her die peacefully. Since when is 40 the new 30 and 50 the new 40. That's fucking ridiculous. Why does anyone need so much information anyways? I can assure you, or myself, that there is nothing in the world which is even slightly meaningful to humanity that needs that kind of information. Am I just conservative. Quite contrary. I think about what humanity looses when it attains such unimaginable technological heights.
Will there ever be a point in time in the future when the world will seem like a big place like a child does? I seriously doubt it.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Introspection

Recently I have been finding this blog too "all over the place". Just like my life all the time. I always feel like aligning my thoughts, analyzing them and then inferring from them in that order. But never happens. Much like everything in my life. That is how I am. I simply cannot change it! If there is work then I tend to do it in a concentrated week or two rather than a month! I simply cannot "plan" out the work and then successfully tackle it. Is that a bad thing, if I get the work done all the same. Not too sure, but surely the means must be important than the end. Anyways I am digressing, the point is that this blog seems to reflect my character to the 't'. Its simply fucking all over the place. Ive been semi-actively blogging for two years now and I have posts ranging from my philosophy, to psychology, to politics, to shit happening in my life etc etc and other nonsense as well. Well ... from now on I will try to be more, for a lack of better word, precise, in my writing. I think writing whats happening in my life is just to painfully difficult, not because my life is shit, its awesome in fact, but usually theres simply too much to write and I am always at a lack of proper words. Case in point. And if I want to catalog my feelings, then at least it should be in such language that make me remember how exactly I felt. And although it is important I think this is not the place for that. I should and will make a different blog for that.
So from now on this blog will be about everything else except my life. Hardly anyone reads it, but I do sometimes, and its almost like someone else is reading it. And if I have to read about someone else's life and feelings and happenings in his/her fucking blog then I would probably turn it in and kill myself by shooting myself in the nuts. So be it. This blog henceforth will just have my thoughts on everything but my life. And I will be glad.