See my first post for where grunts fit into current society.<\/a>)\u00a0 Pre-cave men without a clear and defined language deficiency.\u00a0 Then humans moved to painting pictures on cave walls, ala the cave men.\u00a0 Eventually coherent spoken language evolved, and we held with that for awhile.\u00a0 Then came the written word.\u00a0 People could record ideas and convey them to others in places far away, either in distance or in time.\u00a0 There were some sporadic changes in terms of technology, i.e. movable type, etc., but for the most part this stayed pretty constant for a long time.<\/p>\nThen, the game changer:\u00a0 the telephone.\u00a0 Communication over long distances was instantaneous.\u00a0 People could talk and share important information immediately and pretty much at any time day or night.\u00a0 And really, who doesn’t need to know about Aunt Erma’s gout right now<\/u>?\u00a0 Yes, important information was easily shared, and the world rejoiced.<\/p>\n
Technology started advancing more quickly.\u00a0 The next big technological advancement on our communication ride was email.\u00a0 Sort of an updated merging of letters and telephone, only now we could send written correspondence instantaneously.\u00a0 This was wonderful.\u00a0 This is what I latched onto and what I personally prefer.\u00a0 I will always prefer email.\u00a0 It’s quick.\u00a0 It’s easy.\u00a0 It’s archival… and for that reason I will defend the “bcc”, aka “the CYA” of office communication.<\/p>\n
Next up was Twitter.\u00a0 Ugh, Twitter.\u00a0 I will never, ever, understand the attraction of Twitter.\u00a0 And now, as I understand it, the maximum length of characters has increased from 140 to 280.\u00a0 In other words, it’s now twice as bad and twice as annoying as it used to be.\u00a0 I once heard a baseball broadcast where Vin Scully referred to “tweets” on Twitter as “twits”.\u00a0 Heehee.\u00a0 I think Vin was onto something.<\/p>\n
Now we have texts.\u00a0 Ostensibly short messages for quick unimportant communication.\u00a0 I proudly had never sent a text in my life until about four yeas ago, but they have a place.\u00a0 Not as lengthy communication, though, and some people treat it as such.\u00a0 No, just for short stuff that only needs to be said, like “Pick you up in 20 minutes.”\u00a0 And don’t even get me started on “textspeak”.\u00a0 Are you educated?\u00a0 Good, act like it.\u00a0 “r u 2 l8” is NOT an acceptable abbreviation of “Are you too late?”\u00a0 I will pretty much shut you off in my mind if you do that… immediately… especially if you do it outside of texts and in public and other forms of writing and social media.\u00a0 We as a species already suffer from too much dumbing down, don’t accelerate it.<\/p>\n
As mentioned before, the advancement of technology keep increasing at a faster and faster pace.\u00a0 Major communication revolutions that once took decades or even centuries, now happens in just a couple years.\u00a0 I once thought, “Could we all agree to get together and just ignore the ‘next big thing’?”\u00a0 That would be lovely.\u00a0 Won’t happen, but that’d be awesome.\u00a0 Instead, just slow down.\u00a0 Let me enjoy what I have for awhile.\u00a0 Being the first and most innovative does not impress me, it annoys me.\u00a0 I don’t admire you for making my life more hectic, I curse you.<\/p>\n
What’s next?\u00a0 Going back to grunts with some mental telepathy mixed in?<\/p>\n
Disclaimer:\u00a0 Don’t mistake this as a historically accurate portrayal.\u00a0 It’s just entertainment.\u00a0 In other words, I don’t give a rat’s arse if you find something inaccurate herein.\u00a0 Concept, not history lesson.\u00a0 Go away!<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of me wants technological advance to… not stop, per se… but slow down a bit.\u00a0 Maybe it’s me, but I would like to, you know, spend some time just doing things and getting things done without having to spend time keeping up with and learning something new every time I turn around.\u00a0 Is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Part of me wants technological advance to… not stop, per se… but slow down a bit.\u00a0 Maybe it’s me, but I would like to, you know, spend some time just doing things and getting things done without having to spend time keeping up with and learning something new every time I turn around.\u00a0 Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n