The Revolution is coming
May 19, 2013
The infiltration of electronically infused gadgetry has now reached saturation point and the first rumblings of discontent are starting to come in. Has the time finally arrived to start taking things in our own hands again? Shares are hopelessly down on Face-book Inc. Micro-soft is struggling with keeping up sales on new Pod/pads and Tablets. Moses is sobbing to Joshua.
Looking back, it might well have been the moment when the IT television Guru showed us a new form of inter-connect and therefore disconnect with living lives with the introduction of spectacles that were mini computers. Apparently, those spectacles introduced by Micro-Hard reacted to eye movements that would obey brain messages.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/drive_to_discover&id=8670164
If the brain thought of a big Mac, instantly would appear a GPS signal on the special spectacles, giving directions to the nearest MacDonald’s obesity emporium. They were never far away.
Pitifully or fortunately, many life brain messages, if they still existed, were already mainly of such a superficial nature, the electronic spectacles had little trouble obeying them, honing in on mainly food courts with lots of sugar and fat destinations. The glasses reveled in obeying the child-like brain messages and many people were observed robot-like and in auto mode, marching to fast food outlets or ATMs, queuing patiently and obediently but also utterly silently behind each other with eyes fixed myopically into their special E-spectacles with 4G capabilities and interconnecting WWW surf obligations.
It was then, that, first in medical journals but followed soon reported in the MSM (main stream media), that odd behavior, mainly in some elderly people in public was observed. An elderly man found in Sydney’s George Street, all fetally curled up sobbing with an unexplained rage foaming at the mouth trying to ingest a Samsung 3G tablet. A week later a woman dressed in a floral summer twin-set had been found trying to strangle her I/pod with an ear phone cord. Nothing like that had ever been seen before.
In America similar incidents were observed. Disposal bins and rubbish containers were being filled with E-Modems together with anti-depressant pills. Swinging mood changes amongst taxi drivers were worrying authorities. What was happening? The next week, in Innsbruck Austria, a smoking pyre of Blue E-Teeth was discovered after neighbours in Rauchenstrasse complained of an acrid smell. The Tyroler ski resorts are greatly worried. The image of smoke curling up from ancient farm house chimneys and the perfume of pine covered valleys was what attracted tourism to Tyrol (Ach Tyroler-Land, du bist so schon) not smoking stacks of dying Blue-teeth.
What was most worrying though that on the intercontinental train Genoa- Stockholm a group of people were seen to be talking and conversing, face to face. It was also rumored some were even knitting while TALKING, although that last item has yet to be confirmed.
Just now a report came in of a large group of people having been seen along Fifth Avenue NY chasing Micro-Hard and Windows 9 executives while hurling E- tablets at them. A 79 year old addressing a small crowd while standing on an E-Box modem, solemnly threatened self immolation unless shops would empty their pernicious E-Wares including those dreaded E-specs.
A large golden arched M sign was being torn down in Brooklyn by an infuriated crowd reclaimed the right to health with lentils and celery sticks and shouting obscenities at those still munching on triple beef patties and slurping sugar slurries.
Was it also true that people were handing in their guns, throwing bazookas and multi clip assault weapons on the front lawn of the NRA with its president last seen rowing across Lake Ontario after being chased by large groups of school children? Rumors are rife. In Australia people were helping refugees on leaking boats, rowing them on-shore and gave them blankets, oranges and cashews, and offered their shivering bones welcoming fires.
It is in the air. Some think the world is ready to take back the copper wire again. Things are yearning for simplicity. There will be a revolt by millions of the elderly fed up by complications and enforced choices. The E-glasses were just the catalyst. Things had been brewing for a long time. Even in Vladivostok reports of rampaging people demanding for copper-line to be returned with normal ring-tones and obligatory banning of all E-Glasses and Blue Tooth connectivity in cars strictly banned. Riots in Rostov’s Gorky Park are ongoing.
There will be milling crowds of the elderly, many in battery powered mobility scooters, fed up by complications of hard drives and E-Sticks with useless memory Apps and Blue teeth, with clusters of chargers clogging up drawers and found tangled underneath groaning beds and around cats’ claws.
Mark my word, all those millions of the gummy mouthed but brave, seething with discontent, coarse oaths renting the air. There will be blood on the streets. I/Pods will be hurled through shop windows, gnarled hands shaking, poking the arid air. Give us back our normal lives, face to face with social intercourse, is what we want. We want it now, they shouted in voices hoarse but not of age.
People on street corners are talking, having real conversations and chattering crowds on trains and trams again. The sound of voices is reverberating on the streets. From the chaos of entangled stifling staccato text messages and E- padded rubbish will come forth again a river of flowing words and torrid conversations. Seeds of imagination are being sown on fertile ground. It will come about.
Mark my word.
The revolution is coming.
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helvityni said:
I just posted a reply to Gez, it did not appear, so wrote and sent again…no luck.
Gez found them in spam box…I’m most offended 🙂 It’s not very nice to sit in the a dark spam box, it’s like been sent to a naughty corner…
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helvityni said:
I want to start the revolution with burning down all McDonald outlets, and bringing back the Aussie Hamburgers they used to sell at Greek run milk bars…
They were a meal, and not just some soggy sugary bread bun filled with something equally mushy.
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helvityni said:
Let’s get rid of McDonalds and bring back the Aussie Hamburgers like they used sell at the Greek run milk bars…they were a meal not just some soggy and sweet bread bun filled with something equally mushy…
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vivienne29 said:
Good effort Gerard. Though in digging deep for truth, if Micro Hard (love it) etc are finding times tough it may just be that some people are sick of their constant but useless updating and outdating of soft and hard gadgets and also the fact that they are being ripped off (even game gadgets for kids). There will be a slow revolution against blatant waste (one hopes anyway). We all become victims of it at some stage and there is no way around it. On the other hand improving technology is usually a good thing – I reckon, anyway.
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Therese Trouserzoff said:
I agree, Viv, really good piece of Oosterprose. I loved “Micro hard” too.
It’s ironic that the very technology that Gez is sticking it to – is the technology that we use to converse ! But of course, one can do too much online living – if it starts to come at the cost of less in-person contact.
On the tech aspect itself, nearly three years ago I gave up on Microsoft and switched to Apple. I was pissed off with Windows during and after Vista – which was a really crap operating system that caused more problems than it was worth. I counted 47 updates in the first few months. Some of the updates were to fix the unwanted side effects of previous updates.
I’ve had the same Mac for three years now, and I’ve added a more portable version, an iPad and an iPhone. These together are an excellent integrated set of tools. I can get and send Emails and surf with all of them, whenever and wherever I am (except up the Hawkesbury !) and the newer apps are proving to be a lot easier to use – and more fun too. The operating system is pretty much invisible.
And, fingers crossed – no hardware problems since the switch. People say that Apple stuff is more expensive, which may be true, but IMHO it is also far better to use. I still have Microsoft Office on the Macs – so I can exchange documents with clients and colleagues. Otherwise – nothing else from Microsoft attracts me as a consumer.
Mind you, the stuff that we don’t see – the networks, servers and databases that underpin so many of the sites we log into – are overwhelmingly based on Microsoft products – including one that my team built 12 years ago – that is still running. It has 45,000 users and tracks over 50 million head of cattle in Australia. And amazingly, it is still the best of its kind world-wide.
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Big M said:
I gave up on the Micros!@# nearly a decade ago. Sure, one can really only add more memory, and that’s about it, but there’s NO constant tweaking with drivers, video cards, and assorted paraphernalia.
The current computer needs an upgrade. This time I will purchase an iMac Mini (small box slightly larger than a CD), and a Dell 27 inch monitor. Eldest son is in IT, and he hates Macs, probably because Microhardto get alongwith, create so much employment.
BTW, when you get a new Mac, the new computer will upload all of one’s files from the old one via an ethernet cable…no IT geek required.
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gerard oosterman said:
Yes , I agree and am somewhat mixed up about all that technology. I get those almost daily updates with my computer getting all nervous and finally switching off. When I switch it back on I have to re do things again with pass words and deleting items. It really shits me. Why have those updates? Have there been startling new discoveries over-night?
Why can’t those machines be stable without all those pranks?
As for all those new tech things, I am totally petrified of them. Because of my crook eye I got a Sony E-Reader but went through despair and days of verbal violence above my keyboard and mouse, trying to get it to down-load books. I finally got one simple message from Sony direct and it was done in a split second, but… why was that simple message not part of the instructions? Arggghhh.
I got so wound up I downloaded numerous copies of the same book. I was so intimidated with all that gizmo, I thought I would download a previous read book first, thinking it would be gentler on my frayed nerves. I then ended up with 12 copies of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace”. I then searched through the 50 odd pages of instructions on how to delete books.
I overcame and am now back to my usual serenity and feel calm and collected.
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gerard oosterman said:
Yes, that updating of Micro-Hard is something I could hurl bricks through Dick Smith’s and Harvey Norman’s windows about. I firmly believe we will finally end up having to re-new stuff every couple of weeks. I remember getting my stereo repaired when it would not read my CD’s anymore. It was possible then but does anything get repaired still? Do people bring their toasters or irons still to the electrical repair shop. for a new element? Do people still iron, seeing most fashions are now as crumpled and worn out looking as possible., or does everone now sleep in their clothes.
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vivienne29 said:
Electric kettles and toasters – well lthey don’t work properly in the first place anymore. Have to get a new one each time. Cost of repair not even worth considering. My quiet kettle stayed quiet for about 2 months and then went loud. Toaster only toasts properly on 4 which would normally be very well done, not regular. Fortunately most other stuff does work and keeps working.
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gerard oosterman said:
My night cap is milk and honey. Thanks for the compliment.
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sandshoe said:
I don’t get paid my government stipend until tomorrow and I still have to mail out my first batch of invoices. 😉
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sandshoe said:
This took you a while eh, Mr Oosty? There is all the time first you spent getting to know what you’re talking about so you can be funnier than ever expressing yourself at best mildly confused and at worst homicidal over one of your favourite subjects, digital technology. You get better and better. Thank you for the night cap.
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