This means the Internet Age, the Electronic Age, the Electron Age, the Age of Dislocation, whatever you want to call it, is here, and it is coming on hard.
Governments in first world nations are mostly shutting down economic activity, 2nd world nations are following suit to stay in touch, 3rd world nations are doing who knows what and lying to hell and back about the issue.
Here in Oz, we are seeing millions laid off and seeking reprieve from Centrelink, in fact being told to by our Government/s, spending so far will be in the realm of $90 billion to whatever gazillion. My conspiracy theory on that is we were already in recession, just denied about it, so go in and go hard to cover it up. No Hayek there, just pure Keynes.
Communication between humans is down to nods and phone calls, unless, yes, what the internet was invented for originally. Video conferencing, Zoom being one application, a person can talk to multiple others with vision with no chance of virus spread. There is also Skype, Blue Jeans, Citrix, ClickMeeting, Teams, and multiple others. Some cost, some free, some high quality, yada yada.
So enough of this flying around to Davos or wherever, sit at home, dial up whomever and work out your shit. This is the new time travel, albeit it not in person but in electron form on your phone, tablet, laptop or computer. Pretty soon it will be on your TV, and abracadabra, Back to the Future II.
Time to enjoy the isolation with a phone in one hand, a beer in the other and a cigarette somewhere in between.
Life in the Time of the Electron Age.
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