Great Day: from September 3, 2008

September 3, 2008 (Wed)

9:00pm (or there abouts)
This has been a great day!! I think I should enter that fact in my blog..Which I might as a matter of fact. I just LOVE my new ‘toy’. I have never really had a ‘toy’, like so many people.

It surpasses any expectations I had for it.!!!!

I would have to say....and this is going to be “something” coming from me, I know....that I am even having a little ‘fun’ with it....even in my restricted use of it. (Restricted because of ‘issues’ that need resolving.) I can see that this is going to revolutionize ‘computing’.

My only reservation is that perhaps I should have stayed with my original purchase, but we will see.

For a long time now, I have been commenting about how this present time that we live in, is not different from about 200 years ago...in ‘social’ terms I mean. I have noticed how nothing much has changed, if you read history and look at the early part of the ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the 19th Century. I have often felt an empathy for the weavers and factory workers in what was then referred to as the British Isles. When I was in my 20’s I used to wonder how those young women (and often much older) worked those awful long hours shackled to the whims of the owners. I have often looked at those old photos, taken later in the 19th and early part of the 20th Century, of the ‘girls’ who ‘manned’ the ‘telephone exchanges’ and wondered about their lives and if they were ‘happy’.

Someone on TV was ‘debating’...oh yeah...it was the Chief Research Officer from Microsoft yet!.....about his take on the ‘Information Revolution’...stating it didn’t exist. I sort of lost him about three quarters of the way through because he was not coming to a point. But I also noticed that he is a ‘divergent thinker’...just like me.....and probably has AS too.....so I found that quite amusing. But anyway my point is that socially and economically things are totally the same. The form has just changed.

And....I was thinking yesterday...(unlike today when I was enjoying my day and only had a few moments to digress into such topics....that Bill Gates might be likened to Dale Carnegie, especially now that he is devoting his time to his Foundation...and the Steve Jobs...will be likened (when the future generations, if we get that far and look back at this time)...that he might be likened to Nelson Rockerfeller....or Henry Ford...in the impact they will have, over their lifetimes on our collective cultures in this world.

...and the bottom line of all of this is that, inside us all, is the capacity to enjoy our lives and that the new inventions and changes on the outside have no bearing on that, or only momentarily...and that the gift of life given to us by the ultimate creator.... shines through all things. We only need to enjoy.