Web 2.0 The Machine Is Using Us

Yesterday while listening to an Apple Genius give his seminar on web design, I was struck.

Once I pondered how curry might impact a stew. Where I'd find my next dance shoes. Who could recommend a good piano tuner. (I need one if you'd like to recommend a tuner for my Yamaha U-3)

But now.

Now I have technology.

I learn technology.

I update technology.

I figure out technological clitches.

I wonder why I spend so much time with technology.

And I think of you.

How we're connected.

How the redefining of life on earth is happening here on the internet where we learn, influence, and occasionally, entertain one another.

Speaking of entertaining, I found this insightful video on You Tube about Web 2.0 and how the machine is using us.

I don't own an Apple.

Just everyone and their grandma in Adidas does, and once they're hooked, they speak of nothing else, including their weekly trips to the Genius Bar where they learn everything from--all you had to do was plug it in--to double click, capture, and save, which sounds all good and well but do you smell whiffs of aromatic curry, or see me slipping on dance shoes, or how about tuning the piano?

I want to know:

Once I buy an Apple computer and become an unofficial member of that elitist club, and I step into an Apple Store, and a dozen green shirted Geniuses approach ready to educate me about the latest widget, gadget, and back-up device, which will be noted is of particular importance for me who enjoys graphic art design, I want to know...

Will the store and all it offers in what appears to be an unending technological stream, ever let me go?

You see, as I listened to Mr. Apple Genius spew valuable information about building a web site with Apple ease, I wondered how many hours of my Apple learning curve would take me downstream?

This blog serves me well.

And I thought,

Are there better streams?

Could that Apple computer money be better spent buying a canoe to float upstream.

No time-consuming curves there.

Mostly floating.

And as the markets tanked today, I thought before nothing's left maybe I should cut my losses and head upstream toward Canada with a canoe on my back.

So to speak.

I took this photo last August while I canoed on a river in Banff National Park, Canada.

Quite a multi-tasker, eh?

So.

Apple learning curve or letting go with the flow.

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