Author name: AUDIOMIND

Somehow, I got off on a tangent yesterday when I wrote about the concept of instant communication in our current digital age.

What I wanted to accurately focus on is the (reality of the) fact that we are always in instant transmission mode and expect everyone else to fall in line with this. In the outset, it seems plausible and positive but think about it.

Our cell phones, email, Instant Messengers, home phones, text messaging, beepers, etc, have made us easily and immediately accessible. Now this may be a preferred notion for some in certain circumstances, but is this a wish we all should accept?… Read More...

“Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.”

(guess who I am)

Striking to me is the tone, now being systematically and irreversibly replaced, involving the simple matter of communiqué. How is it that technology has taken us all into a modern time of instant contact, instantaneous digital messaging, and advanced communicative revolutions that are almost beyond even human comprehension, yet seemingly people are far less able/willing/allowable(?)… Read More...