Two things bring this topic to mind, well maybe more than that, but at least two things.
Driving into work one day last week, there was a bad wreck on hwy 91. Apparently a woman on the cell phone was not paying attention and rear ended a car stopped at a traffic light. The car behind her never saw any brake lights and plowed into her …. hard. The second impact sent her under the car she hit and up on top of the car that hit her – a Toyota sandwich of sorts. It was clear from the force of the impact, she never touched the brakes, her attention obviously not on driving. Who was she talking to and why?
Almost everyday lately I have experienced a near miss of one kind or another from someone driving and talking on the phone at the same time. Recently a trolley accident in Boston sent 49 to the hospital, the operator texting his girl friend. Everywhere I look, people are on the cell phone, talking,texting or tweeting.
I just don’t understand the need to be in continuous communications ….unless … we are being assimilated by the BORG.
No, I haven’t seen the new Star Trek movie, but it grossed $76 million over the week end … must be good! It did bring to mind the BORG a fictional (?) race of cyber enhanced humanoids who are continuously linked to a collective mind “the hive mind” and generally seek and follow directions from the COLLECTIVE! It’s futile to resist!
Is that anything like a social network? Face book?
Aren’t the BORG “linked in”? Don’t the BORG Tweet to each other their every move?
Isn’t the “hive mind” just Google,Wiki and Fox News … (OK. MSNBC if you’re a Republican) combined?
At what point do we give way totally to external stimulus and stop thinking for ourselves?
Thank goodness for the BLOG-O-SPHERE it may be the last best hope for the independent mind!
Do not be assimilated! It is possible to resist!
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