The pace of the digital revolution is increasing every day. It seems just like yesterday that CD were the latest greatest thing and now - well I am getting rid of my collection - replaced by iTunes/POD/Phone.
For those of us of a certain age I can still remember the first demo of CD technology on Tomorrows World - it was amazing they could smear jam over the little disk, scrape it off and then the disk would still produce the music again. Now this is something you could never do with LP. Of course what they didn't say was that the sound from a CD would be inferior to the LP but this was the latest and greatest and lest be honest they were very good - but we move on.
And now we are moving into a cloud world. I am thinking about visiting the States, the first time in 3 years, and now I am concerned about whether I will have the same 3G coverage as I do at home (I think the answer is no but that is another story). I must keep connected to the cloud at all costs. I now blog, share content cruise the highways and byways of the cloud and I see this as a right rather than a privilege. It effects where I stay, does the hotel have wi.fi ? is now a very important consideration. I must keep contact with the cloud.
I say I but my wife is the same. We text, browse and consume things through the cloud. The next will be tweeting - more of this next week I feel. In short life moves on and, in the first world, at an ever increasing pace. An yet some things are not better because of this just different. What next?
Simon Marchini LRPS
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
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