Analog Man in a Digital World, or, A realistic Man in a Virtual World.
I heard an interview with Joe Walsh, you know, Rocky Mountain Way, the Eagles etc.........
He said, "I'm an analog man in a digital world", and the song "analog man" really says it all.
We sit in a chair in a digital world, which really isn't there waiting for our brains to come back to us.
Waiting for our brains to start working as they use to. To think for ourselves instead of having the screen
in front of us create this "Digital" world and think for us. This un-realistic world is now driving us and thinking for us and our brains aren't working to their capacity.
I saw on TV a commercial and it's title was "how to work smarter and easier" with a technologically advanced trimmer for your yard. Is it proper to limit our abilities and create something that will lesson our abilities to be physical? Do we need to be less physical or more physical? Again, we are getting away from being human as we were meant to be.
This digital world is taking the analog out of us. It's making us more dependent on the virtual world rather than the realistic world. We are not thinking for ourselves. Our microwaves, coffeemakers, cars and just about everything most of us use today are doing the thinking for us.
I am of a dying breed. I gained my intellegence because I had to begin using my brain when I was just 10. Thats when I started to really use my brain because I started to have this very strong desire to find out what made this thing work. I had to use my brain to first figure out how to take it apart and once I had it apart I had to study it to determine just how it worked. That may have taken weeks but eventually I had a very good understanding of how this thing worked. My next challenge was to put it all back together. For this I really had to use my brain and eventually I had it all back together and 97% of the time it worked.
Today not alot of people know how to do this. They are led through their day by technology. Their automated alarm clock wakes them up and since they have high-tech coffeemakers their coffee is already made and waiting for them. When they are at the table they don't grab a newspaper and use their brains to read it, they pop open a window on their virtual reality machine, the PC. They don't call people and talk with them about what they need to do today, all that information is on another high tech machine.
It's 34 degrees outside but no worries, they have a smart car so they don't have to go out in the cold, start their car and warm it
up. By the time they finish being told what to do today and drinking their ready made coffee their car is warmed up and ready to go.
I'm so glad i'm an analog man. I wake up in the morning and not with an alarm clock. Remember when our bodies could wake us when we needed to be awaken? That's how it still works for me. when I get up nothing is on, or cooked and ready for me, i have to do it myself. While i'm cooking what I need to eat i'm on the phone talking to real people. (Yes, I do have a cel phone but thats because it was cheaper than a land-line phone and much less of a head-ache), but my phone isn't one of those fancy phones with all the bells and whistles, or internet, it's a pre-paid go-phone filp style and the sales person swore that I could not get a new style service on it because it was too "antique", I insisted and got my way. So I'm on this phone talking to real people and i'm not checking messages i'm using my brain to schedule my day as to where I need to go and what I need to do.
When i'm done eating and done talking I put on my winter coat and grab my keys to head out in the cold and get my '91 4 runner started up. 91's are computerized but the air-flow sensor and the throttle position sensor are not so good these days so for 6-8 minutes I have to feather the throttle until it's warm enough to stay running on it's own. All this time i'm fogging up the window because of my breath that I can see i front of my face because it's downright cold in here. Another few minutes and I can pull out of the drive-way and start my day.
Most of us don't give a second thought to the things that go on with us in our daily lives. We don't think of how we are being affected by all this technology and when we do finally realize what has happened to us it will most likely be too late.
I guess it's a two sided coin. On one side you can resist technology and insist on being an analog person which will lead to you falling behind in this fast advancing digital world. On the other side you can embrace all this digital technology and if your young you can become an amazing digital person in this virtual realty world.
Myself, I am extremely happy to have to do everything for myself, to be physical when I need to and to not rely on things that think for me.
Me, I'm an analog man in a digital world, but I'm happy.
Just my thoughts about this digital world that is for the most part being forced upon us.
I heard an interview with Joe Walsh, you know, Rocky Mountain Way, the Eagles etc.........
He said, "I'm an analog man in a digital world", and the song "analog man" really says it all.
We sit in a chair in a digital world, which really isn't there waiting for our brains to come back to us.
Waiting for our brains to start working as they use to. To think for ourselves instead of having the screen
in front of us create this "Digital" world and think for us. This un-realistic world is now driving us and thinking for us and our brains aren't working to their capacity.
I saw on TV a commercial and it's title was "how to work smarter and easier" with a technologically advanced trimmer for your yard. Is it proper to limit our abilities and create something that will lesson our abilities to be physical? Do we need to be less physical or more physical? Again, we are getting away from being human as we were meant to be.
This digital world is taking the analog out of us. It's making us more dependent on the virtual world rather than the realistic world. We are not thinking for ourselves. Our microwaves, coffeemakers, cars and just about everything most of us use today are doing the thinking for us.
I am of a dying breed. I gained my intellegence because I had to begin using my brain when I was just 10. Thats when I started to really use my brain because I started to have this very strong desire to find out what made this thing work. I had to use my brain to first figure out how to take it apart and once I had it apart I had to study it to determine just how it worked. That may have taken weeks but eventually I had a very good understanding of how this thing worked. My next challenge was to put it all back together. For this I really had to use my brain and eventually I had it all back together and 97% of the time it worked.
Today not alot of people know how to do this. They are led through their day by technology. Their automated alarm clock wakes them up and since they have high-tech coffeemakers their coffee is already made and waiting for them. When they are at the table they don't grab a newspaper and use their brains to read it, they pop open a window on their virtual reality machine, the PC. They don't call people and talk with them about what they need to do today, all that information is on another high tech machine.
It's 34 degrees outside but no worries, they have a smart car so they don't have to go out in the cold, start their car and warm it
up. By the time they finish being told what to do today and drinking their ready made coffee their car is warmed up and ready to go.
I'm so glad i'm an analog man. I wake up in the morning and not with an alarm clock. Remember when our bodies could wake us when we needed to be awaken? That's how it still works for me. when I get up nothing is on, or cooked and ready for me, i have to do it myself. While i'm cooking what I need to eat i'm on the phone talking to real people. (Yes, I do have a cel phone but thats because it was cheaper than a land-line phone and much less of a head-ache), but my phone isn't one of those fancy phones with all the bells and whistles, or internet, it's a pre-paid go-phone filp style and the sales person swore that I could not get a new style service on it because it was too "antique", I insisted and got my way. So I'm on this phone talking to real people and i'm not checking messages i'm using my brain to schedule my day as to where I need to go and what I need to do.
When i'm done eating and done talking I put on my winter coat and grab my keys to head out in the cold and get my '91 4 runner started up. 91's are computerized but the air-flow sensor and the throttle position sensor are not so good these days so for 6-8 minutes I have to feather the throttle until it's warm enough to stay running on it's own. All this time i'm fogging up the window because of my breath that I can see i front of my face because it's downright cold in here. Another few minutes and I can pull out of the drive-way and start my day.
Most of us don't give a second thought to the things that go on with us in our daily lives. We don't think of how we are being affected by all this technology and when we do finally realize what has happened to us it will most likely be too late.
I guess it's a two sided coin. On one side you can resist technology and insist on being an analog person which will lead to you falling behind in this fast advancing digital world. On the other side you can embrace all this digital technology and if your young you can become an amazing digital person in this virtual realty world.
Myself, I am extremely happy to have to do everything for myself, to be physical when I need to and to not rely on things that think for me.
Me, I'm an analog man in a digital world, but I'm happy.
Just my thoughts about this digital world that is for the most part being forced upon us.
