Broadband internet - exterminator or matchmaker ?

It is difficult to imagine a life without a broadband internet. It has become a commodity within everybody’s grasp. Even a florist can expand his business by providing internet service of free shipping to his customers. Each time when I close my eyes, I get vivid images and ideas that flash my mind with business ideas connected with the web. It has become unheard of not to incorporate one’s internet adress or email onto a business card. You can shop, get loans and whatnot with just a single click. And it is all affordable. If you are a bartender you may polish up on your drink-making skills, if you’re an animal lover you can make a donation to your favorite animals rights organization, if you’re a locksmith you may advertise or sell your products and services and if you are a gambler you may loose it all.

A comfy chaise longue, big screen LCD HDTV, cordless keyboard and mouse and you got your information/TV/movie center. Boy, must the elderly be perplexed by all this. Not only you do not have to run your errands but you can also complete a higienist course and with honors.

Don’t you wander where all this is going. Where we the mankind are going to end up. Nowhere sad I hope. We probably won’t live to see this and maybe that’s ok. According to Jehova’s Witnesses we should all be smelling the flowers from underneath thanks to the alleged armageddon that never came. Can you imagine what would’ve happened if they had gotten hold of mass mailers or spaming bots. Wow, that’d be a scary scenario.

Who knows what our futures hold.

Life or Something Like It Part 2

However, it is very unlikely for the parents to pay more attention to their young ones due to the crazy pace we adults live in. So all the technological spoils of the today’s modern world come extremely handy. “ Mommy, mommy… what is viagra ? ” – the always curious child tries to find out. But instead of the answer it is send to look it up on the internet or to the ever busy daddy. Internet, TV- very convenient, very popular but how destructive for a young, innocent mind. What happened to board games, card games or any other form of leisure that used to develop creative, logical thinking and unite the family together. Some would say this borderlines with gambling since I mentioned the card games, however it is not that easy. I have never been to the Golden Palace or the Riverbelle Casino but I’m pretty sure you need to be 18 to enter. Whereas with online gambling or internet gambling for that matter, it does not seem that difficult at all. It’s as easy as “borrowing” your daddy’s credit card or debit card and our favorite poker site or roulette welcomes us with a big grin.

Lawyers, dentists, truck drivers, you name’em, consolidating, acumulating all that money suddenly find themselves in banckrupcy all because their 16-year-old went on an offshore gambling spree. That of course is an extremely grim scenario and you might say it does not concern you. How wrong you are. It is the very negligence that might eventually lead to a substantial shrinkage of your wealth. Before you know it affordable becomes unaffordable and you have to forget about the cruises down the river nile or seine. Your child is very capable of ruining you both financially and mentally. Your insurance goes away, you get an allergy, no money for the doctor, you start popping pills, you get headaches, cancer, you die, they put you and you spouse in caskets, you go to the ground that’s it.

And it all started from the harmless, go-ask-your-daddy type of thing. Attention! It should be in our interest to provide it. That’s what the children of today need the most. Not another gadget you ordered that comes with free shipping. However amusing it might at first seem, it may eventually lead to prescription medicine that I mentioned ealier.

Life or Something Like it Part 1

I’ll start off by saying that I’ve never actually written a blog or a journal before. Strange as it may seem in the electronic era, it seems the written word has gained a new meaning. Some purchase cheap books, some write cheap books others write them and yet others read them. I myself find no use in books. Even discount price is not motivating enough, but then it never really was. Books are becoming more and more obscure like the words of Heidegger or Foucault. The only understandable babble is the language of chat rooms, internet communicators and emoticons backed up by countless ackronyms. I mean: FYI
AFAIR TNSTAAFL BG TTYL EOD. Believe it or not, that is a sentence and a meaningful one too.

Now I might be dense when it comes to books, but I wasn’t born in the barn if you know what I mean. You cannot communicate like that! That’s a sheer blasphemy of the language, in this case an English language but I’m sure many other as well.

Because of all of that suddenly we got terms like dyslexia and dyslexic and what not. Every second child seems to have a medical expert’s opinion on not being able to write properly or speak properly or behave accordingly. What a loads of bull. I say first of all parents should make their children unplug their cybernetic brains and step out of the digital world. There’s too much of it. Soon they won’t be able to write without a keyboard.