I Live in the Future
There are times that technology works exactly as I believe it should work, transparent in its functionality so much so that I realize I live in the future.
Case in point - two media based examples that occured less than fourteen hours of each other.
On the way home last night while catching up on Twitter, @johanbruyneel tweeted to an interview that was conducted with Elden Nelson, @fatcyclist about his experience attending @teamradioshack's traning camp in Arizona this past December.
I clicked on Johan's link, a QuickTime window opens on the iPhone, I change the source on my truck's stereo, and the interview starts streaming. It wasn't until twenty plus minutes into the interview that I realized that "Hey! Wait a minute. This interview is being downloaded and played without a glitch in my user experience." It was no different than if I had decided to play a CD, the satellite radio, or something already on the iPhone, etc... The difference whether the content was offline, nearline, or online was unnoticable. I smiled and said to myself, "I live in the future."
Second point, on the way home from swimming this morning, I switched on my Sirius satellite receiver, The Grateful Dead channel, and started listening to an interview of Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead Publicist, conducted by David Gans. I got home, pulled in the drive way, threw the truck in park, fired up the Sirius app on the iPhone and continued listening as I made my way into the house.
As a matter of fact, I'm still listening to it right now as I type this blog post. Once again, I thought to myself, "I live in the future. And ain't it grand."
~namaste~