Douglas Coupland has been drafted in to ample Stephen Fry's shoes on his tech cavalcade Dork Talk, while the British polymath recovers from a torn arm. The Canadian columnist and artisan has tackled the accountable of accessories and obsolescence, demography as his starting-point the actuality that the box of techno-baubles he accustomed from The Guardian in London were all absurd in North America. And this got him thinking, about how time is now abstinent in "tech-waves." If that's the case, again what era are we currently in?
I assumption we are advancing to the end of the aboriginal iPhone era. But Coupland, the columnist of Microserfs and Generation X, moves assimilate another, added advancing theory: that accessories accomplish morons of us all.
I bethink in the 80s if cellphones aboriginal started to pop. I bethink how, if you saw anyone application a cellphone on a street, you anon anticipation they were an asshole: gee, my buzz alarm is so important I accept to accomplish it appropriate actuality and appropriate now! Twenty years later, we're all assholes. We're assholes at the supermarket's meat adverse at 5:30pm, phoning home to ask if we charge prosciutto; we're assholes active in traffic; and we're assholes abnormality down the streets. And with cellphones and handhelds, we collapse time and amplitude and our acumen of ambit and intimacy. And he has a point. I can see how gadgetry does strange, brainless things to people, but in a altered way. My Motorola Razr Mk 1 is dying a affecting death. Its accepted array activity stands at about 15 minutes, it does annihilation but calls and SMS. Basically, I charge a new phone. But am I traveling to get one? If Steve announces the accession of a 64GB iPhone, (estimated accession Summer 2009?) I will. But until then, I'll accomplish do. You see? Technology has angry me into an a-hole. [Guardian Unlimited ]
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