How many blogs do you read a day? A week? How about Twitter? YouTube? Facebook? Myspace? Skype? You catch that show on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the game on ESPN? Jon Stewart, House, American Idol? Wait, sorry, I have to respond to this text; just a sec. My Social calendar is a wasteland of social media. Geez, who’s poking me now? Did you put that on my wall?
DLP’s at the multiplex or Blu-rays in the den? Did them all online, never mind. Read the New York Times every day? Check. The Wall Street Journal? Yep. Your local paper? Magazines? Ten magazines? Takes an hour to go through Sports Illustrated, Time, Oxford American and Wired and, those two over there, uh, can’t remember their names, oh it doesn’t matter, they’ll be irrelevant in 4 minutes.
A week of the NY Times contains more info than a 19th century person would be exposed to in their entire lives – and it is all growing exponentially as we have the digital ability to shove 40,000 CD’s worth of info-a-second down a fiber optic strand and directly into any bodily orifice you choose. An engineer in California claims he has invented a way to mainline 24/7 news, sports and entertainment straight into your neurons through a tube up your nose. EwwTube?
Add all of the media above and you have no time to actually live or have a face to face conversa, ahhh, ohh, did you catch Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live? Bill Maher? Rachael Paddow, O’Reilly, The Charlie Gibson interview? Chris Matthews and Limbaugh? Tivo’d it all and got the last one on Sirius.
Hold on, I have to download Edgar Sawtelle on my Kindle. I’ll be with you when I check these last 45 emails. Let’s IM about that stock price later in the day when it’s down 697 more points. Oh, check out this cool app on my iPhone, here, watch this –ah, yeah, let me flip it on it’s side so you can see the entire hurricane that is bigger than the Gulf of, look, my widget is beeping, or is that my BP rate? See I have this device on my, whoa, what is that over there? Is that a human talking to another human? Damn, that is creepy. Let me get a pic of that and post it on, hello, you there?
