About 100% of my time awake I use digital media.
At work this includes using the internet for research or other purposes, composing e-mails through Microsoft Outlook, or working on spreadsheets or documents in any of the other programs that are out there. Even our company phone system, VOIP, is digital.
At home I watch television digitally, and am also hooked up to the internet through my laptop. My dear old BlackBerry never leaves my side on which I not only place phone calls, but also do internet searches, use Google maps to find my way to locations I haven’t been to before, use my camera, or connect to Yahoo! Messenger, or MSN Messenger.
When I’m awake, I’m online.
Sometimes I even use digital media when I’m NOT awake, by plugging my iPod in my alarm clock and setting the alarm or setting the sleep timer, for instance.
What does all this mean? We are surrounded by digital media – it’s everywhere we go, and even if we would try to escape it, we would soon find out that living a “normal” life just doesn’t seem possible without this new-er type of media anymore. We already depend on it too much. Why else would people refer to a BlackBerry as a CrackBerry?
kegill Said:
on January 9, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Some call this ubiquitous computing. Just so you know!
mlennert Said:
on January 11, 2008 at 12:58 pm
CrackBerries are evil, but would I leave the house without mine?