Information
In today’s world, it seems the faster we can receive and transmit information, the better we like it. Here are a few words about this.
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It is now 2 PM and my wife, Pam, just called me from work and told me that she had forgotten her iPhone and she had missed her 1: 30 PM cash register printout reading because she depends on the alarm on her phone to remind her. I told her not to worry, that the alarm on her phone had waked me up from a deep sleep sitting in my big boy recliner and I had her phone laying here next to me. I assured her I would take good care of her phone until she got home, but this was not good enough as she wanted me to get off my wrinkled old butt and bring her her phone at work. I finally convinced her by using the old “I’m not feeling too good this afternoon” line that she could do without her phone for the three hours left on her shift. I told her I would answer all calls for her.
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The truth is that we have all become so attached to our portable information center phones that we just don’t want to be with out them even for an hour or two. Pam checks her messages every hour or so even at work. If it’s an emergency involving someone in the family, she wants to know right now. Even if she can’t talk long, she still wants to know who called and when all day long. When she gets a short break, she checks Facebook to see what’s going on out there in the world with all her friends. She also checks the weather a time or two to see what the weathers going to be long on the way home. Both of our daughters send photos at all hours of the day which the iPhone responds to with a distinctive sound. She takes the time even at work to take a quick peek at them. She gets her work schedule for the future on her email so when that comes in, she starts planning her next week, immediately. The truth is, that she is just lost without her personal information center and she hates to be without it even for an hour. I think this is true for any active person in today’s world.
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A while back, Pam’s brother Buffalo Bob and his wife Brenda decided to go on an electronic blackout for a week and not answer the phone, no email, no messaging, no Facebook etc. Pam tried calling them, messaging them, and emailing them with no contact for several days. She actually thought they had been gassed with CO2 or perhaps had been murdered at home. She called her sister in nearby Fritch, Texas, and asked her to drive into Borger and go by their home and check on them. Buffalo called her after the visit and Pam gnawed on him quite a while telling him how worried she had been. So not only do we depend on these devices for ourselves, but we also use them extensively to check on the well being of our families.
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If the communications and internet system ever goes down for an extensive period of time, all our lives would severely changed and set back in time. How would we all survive? Perhaps Buffalo had the right idea practicing for an electronic blackout. However, I’m not sure that our family could go on an electronic blackout. If we lose our Wi Fi for an hour or so, we panic and start calling our provider to get it fixed right now.
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PS. The new iWatch has been a huge success because people can get a scan of the new information they are receiving by just glancing at their wrist rather that by pulling out their phone. The faster we can get that information the better. How did we ever live without this stuff?
Everybody needs one of these. Dick Tracy would be proud of us.
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Thanks for reading Information,
Bill