Granted that technology and new technology always have profound impacts on people, society, the world – whatever the current New Media hype is, it’ll only be Old Media in another decade or so.
There’ll be a handful of early adopters ranting and raving about the new New Media. There’ll be people trying to creatively find ways to make money from it. There’ll be people claiming to be professionals or experts in how to ‘monetize’ the new New Media platform and there’ll be the usual mainstream of people that just won’t get it.
It’s certainly not rocket science and it’s certainly not a mystery.
There are hundreds of blogs currently, all posting about the advantages of embracing the current Web 2.0 etc … and honestly, it’s making me sick. It’s all redundant.
There IS no secret. It’s simply all about people and communicating. There is NO secret.
Sure, people suck at communicating. Sure, there are people that can’t even seem to get a grasp of what really is important or essential, so much so that they need someone else to tell them what to do, to enlighten their ignorant selves – only to increase the seemingly “ego value” of someone else’s false pretense.
Whatever.
It’s not that I’m a hypocrite. I’m only being honest on a given day or hour.
Do I embrace any new New Media? Of course I do. But that’s just me. I’m A.D.D. so I am always looking for things to learn and tamper with.
On the reality scale though, I feel that my reality is much more grounded than many others. Why? Because, while I DO have a grasp and sense of any new New Media, I am able to see the overall picture of where things will eventually lead to.
I KNOW what everyone ultimately wants to achieve, even if they do not know it for themselves.
After all the running around and trying out of new things, people will get eventually disillusioned at one point and feel the need to “STOP THE INSANITY”. Some will really STOP. Others will take a sabbatical but get back on the band wagon. People will sense at one point that it may be a waste of time, but they won’t listen to their intuitive because they feel that they don’t want to miss the boat on the next big thing. So what do they do. They merely continue on with their exploration and passionate acceptance of the current new New Media.
Me, I just go with the flow NEVER forgetting what is essential.
If you ask me, I think there is something deftly wrong with all this New Media, Web 2,0, Social Networking stuff. I just cannot put a finger on it.
Of course I admit that without Twitter or Facebook I would never have had the chance to communicate with Jeff Pulver, Tim O’Reilly and the hundreds of people that I may have never met, but you know what? There are hundreds of people within a 1 km radius that I have still to meet but never will because I spend time on the internet.
Basically, I too am fucked.
Stay tuned for my theory on the evolution of mankind.
I think I have abstractly blogged about it in a fiction sort of way.
