Teets, 8/30

When exactly did the Postmodern era start? Or has it even started? Most times an era is categorized years later, so I guess for now we will have to answer those two questions with an "I don't know." What we all doknow, though, is that our society is becoming more and more obsessed with speed and efficiency. The invention of the internet has led to many new and exciting inventions, which allow individuals to perform tasks quicker. Networking sites, IPhones, online shopping, emails; all of these things have made it much easier to communicate and also perform simple tasks from your computer chair! The internet, in my opinion, opened doors for the technology boom. Our society has become faster and faster in recent years, and only time will tell just how much faster we can potentially get.

Nowadays if you don't have time to talk on the phone, you send a text message. If you don't have time to sit down and eat at a restaurant, you go through a Drive-Thru for a quicker meal. We make "speed based" decisions each day without even realizing it. If I don't have time to prepare lunch, I open the freezer, unwrap a hot pocket and put it in the microwave for a minute and 16 seconds. As I'm walking to class, I don't have time for a full conversation with my friend, so I send a text message instead. I don't park in the first available parking spot because I can find a closer spot that will allow me to get where I'm going faster.

The mini timeline we reviewed in class only covered events that took place in the past 60 or so years. As college students, we can assume that some of us will be around in another 60 years. It blows my mind to think of what our world will be like 60 years from now. It seems moronic to pose the question, "What next?", but I find myself asking it anyway. What will be the next great invention of our time? Will it really be a video based twitter site? Will it be navigation chips inside of everyone? Sometimes we have to put our individual arrogance aside, and reply with "I don't know."