This all came to me in an angry rush when I was cursing out History.com for not having the episodes of my favorite show up online yet. You might be angry too, if you waited impatiently and were anticipating getting home on a Friday afternoon with nothing to do to sit down on a plush armchair amidst the dark, cool, empty house where there is nothing to be heard but the serious yet mellow tone of the narrator and the crazy comments of Giorgio Tsoukalos. You’d be pretty pissed too if you were denied such a comfortable delight. Even worse than that, the History Channel has a directory list of all the episodes that they have made and all the ones that are coming up for the next 3 weeks (what a tease!) posted up on the main page of each series.
So, it’s not enough that they don’t have the latest episode posted, they have faulty promotion that keeps you wanting more episodes.
The sad part of all of this is that I was upset because the latest episode, which had been that of the night before, wasn’t up on the page yet. One frickin day. Not even. Actually, it was more like less than 24 hours that had elapsed since they premiered it on TV. How sad is that? I can’t believe I was upset about that, when I once had to deal with DIAL-UP.
Who remembers those painful days, where you had to choose between talking on the phone or using the internet? How crazy was what?! And when DSL came into play and the miraculous new internet connection appeared that didn’t require a tough decision of hang up/go online… Wow, I was jealous of all those people that could have it all!
These days, technology’s been moving so fast and so far that we’ve become accustomed to the RIGHT NOW, and you can never deal with the WAIT A MINUTE, or the IN A SECOND, because goodness forbid you have to sit in front of your screen for 2.4452 milliseconds longer before Google reads your mind and automatically finds your search words with you only typing the first 3 letters. (-__-) By the way, I hate it when Google completes my search. No, Google, I’m NOT trying to search Harmonies in Piano or Harriet Tubman or Hardy Har Har, I’m looking for Harry Potter. It’s just one of things that make my eye twitch just a little bit.
My point is, aside from that little venting session, that we’ve become extremely dependent on technology for everything and it’s kind of scary. We expect technology to be perfect and do everything we ask it to in a fraction of a nanosecond. Where is this leading us? Where’re our lives headed? How is this affecting the ones that are to come after us and populate the earth in their own technological frenzy some day?
I’ve always been a fan of Star Wars and Zenon of the 21st Century, but is the world really going to be like that? Instead of emails or letters or Gchat or Skype or OovoO, are we going to communicate through holograms? And if we get to that point one day, what will come after?
