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Shock and Awe When the IT Stops
10/24/2005
(a) That it needs to be seen as a necessary utility or part of life and we
have to ensure that everyone has good access to it all; and
(b) At the same time, there are going to be intense collateral consequences
as the digitization of our experience continues.
Yet, how do people who don’t have the luxury, like me, of private, beautiful acreage to walk on get the necessary(?) “real” input to their daily lives that I get from walking on my course? Especially when they don’t even want to!
I think the final straw, for me, is television on cell phones. You’ll notice that I didn’t mention TV in my daily routine, above. That’s because I don’t watch TV; can’t stand it.
So, when I lost my email and Web and my intended opinion piece today, the shock I felt was partly from that and partly from the background shock my feeble mind is suffering picturing being surrounded someday soon by dozens of other people, in public, not only talking to the air, but watching television as they walk along. That really puts me in a shaky mood.
Q: What happens, very soon, when we are in a hotel room and simply cannot determine whether the view from the window is real or simulated? When the airplane window beside us is touch screen and when our views through it are digital, enhanced by all sorts of GIS data and related information? When a movie has human characters who were never human and we can’t tell.
A: I don’t know. But I will soon.
P.S. (And this is true!) I’ve just found out that our wireless and wired LAN is down and I can’t send any email at all. So I am now going to close the file, walk to Starbucks, and send this to my CT editor from there. Ciao.
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.
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