More Conversation.
In "Conversation" we looked at how the computer and the digital world has affected human interaction in business. As consumers we too have been impacted, even expected to adjust to the new interface of business.
A broad view of this suggests a cultural process of inter-communicative change is well developed in the human family.
The calculator was feared to make the concepts of simple arithmetic redundant, and I am sure there are plenty of indicators to measure the accuracy and impact of the calculator on mental processes.
Can you imagine a classroom today without a computer? Can you imagine anything without a computer?
A calculator? Does anyone have one?
We can go down to a village pond and see the bugs zipping across the still water, but Wikipeadia will quickly give you all the collected information about the species of water bug you may have just seen for the first time in your life!
I imagine there is still room for exploration. Out there beyond the satellites and space junk there is lots of room for adventurous souls, and undoubtedly many of the future generations will beat a path to Mars.
Just when we thought we were starting to understand each other a new technology rolls across our path.
Maybe this is a good thing. What do you think?
Do you suppose when Gutenberg invented the printing press he knew that some day we would be able to read books after dark? Was the invention of the electric light bulb inevitable! Now there was an evolving conversation!
So this lag time is it a myth? That in fact we are not supposed to become entrenched in patterns of thinking and communicating, and that technological evolution is intended not just for its own sake but to provoke us into finding more deeply human ways of saying "Good Morning?"
Are we running the risk of missing something here?
How can we say "Hello!" and really communicate with the marvelous human being in front of us?
I think that is worth thinking about. How about you?
JFC Sept 2010
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