An Age of Magic

Are we suffering from information overload…?

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It is official. The human race is suffering from ’information overload’ and we are all being advised to turn off the mobile phones ( something I would celebrate! ), unplug the computers, get off the nintendos and PSP’s, put away the iPods and find your way without the darn GPS.

And it is true; we are relying way too heavily on technology these days. Everything is either a blip on a screen or plugged into your ear. We shop online, flirt online, work online - we can buy products on cyberspace including everything from acne products to surrogate mothers.

We cannot do anything using our own brains anymore; we program things to tell us where to go and how to get ( often getting lost on the way ), we find our perfect mate by entering a few details and seeing our ideal match chosen for us…

Just imagine we actually DID spend 24 hours totally reliant on nothing more than our own instincts, knowledge and initiative. Or have we grown out of all that…?

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Camera’s…they sure have changed

When you think back to the very first time a photograph was ever taken - back in 1826 by the French Chevalier brothers - the camera has to be considered one of the most significant inventions of mankind.

It has effectively recorded mans progress through the 19th and 20th century, capturing all those historic moments which made the 19th and 20 centuries the most interesting in the history of humankind. Before then we only had an artist’s impression or the written word…

But look at how the camera has evolved since that day in 1826 when the Chevalier’s took that first photo; it was on a sliding wooden box camera. Since then we have had Daguerrotypes and Lithographs; camera obscura’s and box brownies. Then later came the self-developing cameras and now we have the digital cameras with their compact flash and memory cards.

And they have all played a part in the last 200 years. Why? because we have the last 200 years on film.

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Remember when batteries were needed?

My how times have changed. I remember when batteries were what drove our childrens toys but now everything is ‘wireless’ - even remote control units are on their way out. I remember the original nintendo console and actually I liked it the best - not complicated and you didn’t look a fool sitting there with the control in your hand. Look at someone playing a Wii  today - they stand up and wave their arms around…

That old sign ‘batteries not included’ need be changed now to ‘batteries not necessary’…

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