Ah...leather chairs, library to peruse, storm outside the window, fire blazing in the hearth...this used to be a "look" that seemed to summon up "home".
Have the kindle and the ipad completely changed this scenario?
And what about that hearth? I wander through a lot of very appealing homes that have unconventional fireplace arrangements, that burn ethanol fuel, and can be attached almost anywhere...even seemingly free-floating ones!
At a recent conference, over 70% of the attendees were using their ipads. That multi-layered life we're all living is certainly in evidence. Listening to a live speaker, checking emails and news items on the ipad at the same time, possibly sending an urgent email reply....and "all at once", in the half light of a meeting room, with laptop slide presentation occurring at the front.
What different people our technologies are creating!
Suddenly we are doing and thinking many things, and all at the same time, no interruption between them...not like multi-tasking, then.
I read somewhere that we apparently only use 10% of our brain's capacity, so maybe we truly are being trained to become big thinkers? Will multi-layering make us surface surfers, though?
Anywhere we go, we can be ipadding away, reading a book we just decided to download, and can erase if we don't want to finish it...consumer as editor. Hmmm....one more thing that is no longer in control of the creator or the purveyor, but totally in the control of the consumer of same. Profound!
Meanwhile, that chair is looking very inviting on this rainy Thanksgiving Weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving...don't panic!), and that snapping real fire is very warming. Now, which volume of Peter Robinson's mystery series am I going to lose myself in?
If you're a Canadian, Happy Thanksgiving!
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