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Originally posted by Bluesma
What I percieve is that the part of a society that is most rapidly changing, changes.
I mean, we change our focus on what we are nurturing and causing to grow and evolve.
A mall may not have changed much in that time, BUT
The buying and selling of products via the web has changed a LOT!
The growth evolved to a different form.
In 2006 I wasn't buying anything online- now I do my banking, my clothes shopping, christmas shopping, even grocery shopping online. I don't go to the mall anymore.
I also was noting how my brain seems to have changed since internet access (I am one of those old enough that half my life was before personal computers became generalized). I am so used to processing more information in each minute I get bored just watching a movie (even when I am enjoying the movie)- I need to open up other windows and researched various things at the same time. I am able to think and make connections and analyze things ten times faster now. It seems like life has sped up because my mind has sped up.
Just taking a walk outside, I rake in ten times more data consciously than I did ten years ago!
You might be looking in the wrong place to see the changes.......?
Originally posted by December21st2012
reply to post by lampsalot
I think it may go deeper than this, I strongly suspect that time itself is the culprit here, and then. That is to say, not so much a socio decline in acceleration, as to a decline in the acceleration of time itself. From what I have been told, this could (I have no way of verifying this) be due to time "leaking" into other dimensions. This also has a lot of other implications, which impact directly on our reality. Time itself, obviously is non physical, however think of it more as the air upon which a feather might float. Our physical essence in this plane is the feather.
Originally posted by bknapple32
Lol tell this to the people going to ces on Tuesday.
Originally posted by Credenceskynyrd
Originally posted by bknapple32
Lol tell this to the people going to ces on Tuesday.
why would that make my observation different?
Originally posted by Credenceskynyrd
yes, I know technology changes, I wouldn't deny that, I mean on a visual level this thread is something I wholeheartedly agree with- 24, the visuals, the "feel" if you will does not seem out of step with now, whereas looking at shows from 2001 compared with 1989 it feels much more of a distinctly different era
Originally posted by Credenceskynyrd
I totally agree with this and have been thinking of it on a "low level" for some time.
Reading your thread brought this home to me last night
Believe it or not I have never watched 24, so I sat down last night on Netflix and watched the first episode made in 2001 (11/12 years ago)- aside from the mobile phones, there was NOTHING in this programme that would have overly surprised me if this had been made last year, 2 years ago etc.
Now if I was to compare a programme from 2001 with 1989/90 I think the differences would be extremely significant and I would "know" these were different times
Originally posted by bknapple32
I don't know about this.. I see a lot of change... Ok think back to 2006...
People were just learning about these cool phones you could touch with your finger to do everything. Buttons? Ha buttons are going bye bye. It was just starting. When you saw someone with a touch phone you were amazed and wanted to touch theirs if you hadnt had one yet. Now 2013? You can buy a touch screen phone for 50 bucks with no cellphone plan or contract and pay as you go. Almost everyone with a phone has a touch smart phone.
Back in 2006, no one had video on demand like today. Sure if you had a good cable service you may get a few movies to play on demand. People only heard of this thing called netflix but it was more of a snail mail service with a very limited almost beta testing on demand streaming service. Nowadays, we have Netflix used primarily for streaming instantly now with over 100,000 titles at the touch of a button. Add to that amazon, hulu, vudu, crackle, blockbuster on demand, the use for a brick and mortar video store is almost non existent.
In 2006, flat screens were the wave of the future. You would go over to someone else's house to watch the game on this amazing thing called High definition. It became addictive. But it wasnt available everywhere. Some sporting events. And roughly 15% of the channels had it to offer. Blu Rays were fighting HDDVD for who would control the future in home video entertainment. Today? Almost every single person I know has a flatscreen in their home. Standard definition only applies if the channel they are watching doesnt offer it. Which is rare. From NBCHD to NatGeoHD, its everywhere. Blurays are just as cheap as DVD's now for older titles. I dont know many people who won DVD's anymore. Ive personally replaced all my dvd's with blurays. And now I have a 3d HD 1080p 65'' tv in my bedroom ( imagine what I have in my living room)
In 2006 my laptop had 250 mb of ram( or something like that). Today mine has a 1tb. I have a screen on my home computer I can touch now as well. Its an all in one. A tower? What the heck is a tower? Its a flat screen computer with all the gadgets in a tower now in the flatscreen. And the internet speed I had for my 2006 home? I was lucky to pull 1mbps. Today, I average with verified speedtest.net 25mbps. I was just able to download every episode of Homeland off my directv on demand service in a single night. In 2006, that would have taken me a week, and that is if the service was even offered, which it was not.
I could keep going...
Originally posted by DjembeJedi
reply to post by lampsalot
Nice! You found a pattern in the timeline.. I think you are definitely on to a solid theory here. If we continue to replicate on our selves without ANY concern for the place in which we live our destruction would most certainly be imminent. Leads one to ponder on the idea that a "Singularity " may actually be the realization of true self preservation with the release of humanity's EGO. S&F !edit on 1/20/2013 by DjembeJedi because: finish idea..
Originally posted by lampsalot
Originally posted by DjembeJedi
reply to post by lampsalot
Nice! You found a pattern in the timeline.. I think you are definitely on to a solid theory here. If we continue to replicate on our selves without ANY concern for the place in which we live our destruction would most certainly be imminent. Leads one to ponder on the idea that a "Singularity " may actually be the realization of true self preservation with the release of humanity's EGO. S&F !edit on 1/20/2013 by DjembeJedi because: finish idea..
What do you mean 'replicate on ourselves'? Are you referring to increasingly the human population?