Speculating about technology and the convenience of living life tomorrow, today.
Let’s face it, despite that we’re mostly embarrassed whenever our broadband connection and computer programs go haywire we couldn’t afford to get back to our old ways. By “old ways” I mean writing through pen and paper or a manual typewriter and getting your references through textbooks and dictionaries on whichever bookshelves and drawers you may have kept them. Now going through those pages and inhaling the dusted pages which could activate your allergy, you may have lost your point of thinking what word was that you’re supposed to look for when you blow a sneeze. Haaaaaatchhhhooow! Hmmnnnn, what was that I’m looking for?
Consider the present moment that you are seated in front of your computer and typing your article (considering the broadband connection and programs were running smoothly) with such an ease that you could merely move your fingertips to initiate a search through google to find the appropriate words that best describe the meaning your ideas have in mind. We maybe embarrassed from time to time but the novelty of the technology was well worth it.
When I was on my desperate years after graduating from high school, I recall having been inspired by the magazines my cousin sent home from Manila. She used to be working at the Post Office at Villamor Air base in Pasay and there had been loads of Military Technology and aviation magazines from subscribers who has changed their address that the postman failed to deliver. All those magazines way back in the latter 80s gave me a glance at what the future technology may look like and I was filled with such awe and inspiration that eventually led me to shift my Fine Arts course to Aircraft Maintenance Engineering in college. When I finally left the province to take the sailing ship to Manila I remembered painting inspirational lines on an illustration board which I posted by the wall of my room just so I could look at it and contain my feeling of longing for being separated from the house which has sheltered me for 17 years. I couldn’t fully recall the exact words but it goes this way, “ Imagine a future where everything could be attained at a touch of a button and such state of ease comes at a price; consider the present world (1988) where human failure could be rooted to a restless mind who would likely resort to sensual pleasure to attain instant fulfillment that would eventually hinder his drive to achieve greater heights. Consider resisting that routine flow of life’s temptation and soon enough, you reap the future”.
I could get teary eyed how I left the house on such fateful day and everything happened at a flash forward (am I committing a crime by using that term from the famous TV series?)to this moment I am musing how to end this writing. I have to finish the end sentence for this post and as you may know, I have reaped the prize of the future today.
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