As you will see by the time you get to the bottom of this page, I have written this post on my iPhone. It has come to my attention that this iPhone is slowly taking over my life. I recently downloaded this application as well as some ones for Twitter. I was never caught up in the Twitter craze I signed up to check it out and shortly after left it alone. Now that I have the iPhone though I have found myself checking every 5 minutes along with my facebook. Having these things at my fingertips is now making me think why I feel the need to check them so often. What are the odds if someone posting something on my wall or tweeting me something in a space of 5 minutes..... Highly doubtful I assume, but then there is the fact I feel the need to know everyones business by checking thier status/tweet when I could easily just pick up my iPhone and call them (I know you can call people on them too... Amazing!)
The day after I got my iPhone I went down to Melbourne and whilst sitting on the train I was looking at all the people with iPhones typing away a message, playing their music or just checking facebook (Me) and thought how these devices have changed since the brick phone days and now most phones come with Internet, mp3, camera etc capablities. It only makes you wonder where we go from here with the release of the ipad makes you wonder where the next step is in the likes of mobile devices and what they can do. I can already order pizza via an app or tweet my poo with details, make a band, update numerous social sites plus much more I have yet to discover.
The reason I titled this blog I generation is reference to an MC Lars track of the same name. We really are living in an I generation where moat households probably own one or my apple products . I only have my iPhone and iPod. But with so many products out there doing the same thing anyway it really is the genration of the uber-do-everything phone. Being 22 I have seen technology change a fair bit. Let's break this up in tecnology genres:
Entertainment: first video game console we owned was the atari my brother got it for his birthday and I thought it was the best thing ever. We then got a nintendo (original) then the first real taste of handheld gaming he gameboy (and later the
Advance) then came the N64 the first look at 3d gaming then I got a ps2 same sorta thing just a little crisper picture and now I own the wii which is working towards the first virtual reality console (one day?) all the predesscers to the wii have become obselete and are in boxes somewhere and only bought out on days I feel really nostalgic.
Music: obviously the genres have changed due to technolgy but I am more talking about how we get music. I may be a bit too young for records but I still remember listening to them occasionaly and taping them on to tapes. My first tape player was a hand me down that still works I used to record my own voice or stuff off the radio and listen to it over and over. I still remember my first cassette I ever got a tape full of kids tv show themes (still listen to it sometimes) then came CDs we bought a cd/tape/record player all in one for about 500 bucks back when CDs first came out. The first cd I ever got was simpsons in the key of Springfield but it wasn't till about a year later I got my own cd player , this unfortunately died a few years ago and I have not had another cd player since. You see I used my computer as a cd player and put all
My music on there then i got my iPod and could take my music where I want when I want. Now with the launch of iTunes and file sharing I found myself visitng the music stores less and less I only ever by hard copies of stuff if I really like the band. I admit I do download music but I then go out and buy it if I like it enough. The stuff I don't just gets fogotten about. If only most people thought this way then downloading wouldn't be such a problem.
Anyway I am going to leave this here for now and will continue later with communication, movies and life just in general....thanks for letting me bore you
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By the title, I thought you were going to talk about the I generation, as in you think we're all self-obsessed kids, lol.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit of a Mac geek, have an iPod, MacBook and definitely want an iPhone. Not so keen on the iPad though but I could possibly be convinced otherwise, say if Apple gave it to me for free.