I recently read Gary Sheytgart's Super Sad True Love Story and it sickened me, not the book itself, it was brilliant but the future that is portrayed in the book was frightening.Then yesterday I was reading the Wall Street Journal while work was slow and this article caught my interest.
It's awesome in the real sense what technology is doing. And as I worry about what information my technology is spewing into the world about me (though I am behind the times, my phone cannot reach the internet) I use it. Everyday I check the statistics of my blogs, this one and my cheekier one Invisible Pen and Ink, see who is reading what I write. Though I don't know exactly who without them leaving a comment, I know how many people read it, I know what country they read it from and I know what browser they used as well as what operating system they use.
I don't really know how this benefits me. This knowledge means very little in my hands, but, and it is one of those things that isn't likely to happen but, if I were marketing something, anything, I'd have a way to sift through my demographic.
But I'm not marketing anything. I'm just throwing my point of view out there and maybe not in the best fashion but it's something. So the technology works for me, and it takes over the world at the same time. Do we wait until the Super Sad True Love Story type apocalypse or stop before we get too close?
I'm considering becoming a hermit. It's either that or I buy and iPhone.
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