Our iTech Life is as Vulnerable as a Neonate
I remember when I stored 50 or 100 phone numbers between my ears. This was back in the day of the rotary phone. I should have realized that those 12 push buttons of technology from Ma Bell were going to lead me down the path of selective technological dementia – where I have to check a digital device for my name, rank and serial number.
As human beings, we rarely dwell on just how fragile our existence is. We tend to think the sun will rise tomorrow and though Bernie Madoff is in jail, our financial security is no more secure now than it has been at any other time in history. It can all go in the flicker of an eye – everything gone, even more so than the tsunami in Japan.
Likewise, we text, tweet and like as if all of our gadgets will be there for us – should the sun continue to rise.
A strong solar storm in 1859 shorted telegraph wires, causing fires in North America and Europe. If such an electromagnetic storm occurred today, it would take four to ten years to recover electric power lines, according to a report of the National Academy of Science. Given the strong interdependence of every system, the effects could be devastating for the whole of society. – The Digitally Divided Self
I wonder how many of us would survive if we lost electricity for a decade.
And on another note –
God!
You should hear
Me complain!
About this lack of sleep
You’d never know
I’ve just awakened
From a fifty-year snooze
Every time I try to relax
A new tale from beyond
Enters my head
Going on and on
Like a broken record
Until I let it out
Or, some soft kiss
Steals into my heart
Setting it on wing
This canary’s very nature
Is endless sweet song
There’s no time to rest
The grave is rushing toward us
Like a runaway train
Don’t be struck
Deaf, dumb and dead
Before your time
Choose your death wisely
Crack your heart-seed open
Now
Die in this moment
Singing your birth-song
And you
Into existence
Come join me
In this delicious misery
Lay your head upon
Soft feathered pillows
Awaken
In His lap
God
Wants to hear
You complain too!