Slave of Technology

broken iphone

So here it is January 10,2009!! I am officially 34 years old today!

It’s great to know that 34 years ago the world was EXACTLY the same as it is now! (sarcasm mode on)

However, two young, nerdy entrepreneurs,Bill Gates and Paul Allen, created a little company called Micro-soft.

Betamax was introduced and it was revolutionary way to not only watch movies at home, it soon become the broadcast standard for camera’s. In fact, Fusework Studios still relies heavily on this format!

Anywho,enough about 1975! Let’s get back to the topic at hand

I broke my iPhone just as the big 3-4 hit!
(It fell just enough to not break the screen but jar the inside connector loose,I think. So I can hear it ring but can’t answer calls and the screen is white)

Now, those of you that don’t know about the magic of the iPhone…I’ll tell ya

I am completely crippled without it. I can’t use another phone to call “Brian” because I don’t ‘know’ his number! I can’t text anyone because,well my phone’s broken. I use it check my 15 email accounts, get directions, play music and videos, surf the web, send Twitter messages, check my Facebook blah blah blah.

So I get drive at full speed to the AT&T store, they are completely clueless and send me to the Apple Store. The Apple store tells me I don’t have appointment!

Appointment? What is this a doctors office?? So they schedule for me to come in at 4:20 (seriously) I guess i could have registered online at Apple.com, but I didn’t.

They also informed that I would have top pay a $200 repair fee as it had some visible damage to the case that honestly, has been there for months! Ugh… Remember kids, there are no breakage plans on these!

So now I wait, phoneless. Like a heroin junkie waiting for a fix. Or a motherless child…

Damn you technology!

More to come!

Why is it a “Brave New World”?

I didn’t really think too hard when I named this blog. Yeah, it’s the title of a book by Aldous Huxley.
In this book (1931), Huxley deals with developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society.

According to answers.com, A Brave New World is a world or realm of radically transformed existence, especially one in which technological progress has both positive and negative results. That’s the whole premise of mine, as well many other blogs.

Society, as a whole, is evolving technically at a rate that is exponential and so much faster than our brains can comprehend.

Ray Kurzweil wrote “The Law of Accelerating Returns” in 2001. It explains how much the 21st century will greatly differ from the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th and 20th century.

“An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate). The “returns,” such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially. There’s even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity — technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.”

So while he points out how this growth will affect us; it’s ultimately going to lead to artificial intelligence that could ultimately control humans or destroy our current civilization.
Terminator anyone??

(more to follow)