Blogging

Today I acquired a new cellular device: the Motorola Droid X. The phone is virtually overflowing with features, from the usual camera, texting, and calling capabilities to the more sophisticated web browser, fm radio, youtube browser, facebook, and twitter functions. In addition, there are thousands of applications available on the android market, including games, barcode scanners, and nearly anything you can imagine, including a blogger application. In fact, this entire post and several others were type entirely from my cell phone. It is hard to imagine that only ten to fifteen years ago, something as simple as sending a short message via a computer was considered revolutionary and nearly incomprehensible. Not long after this groundbreaking act took place and the world wide web was open to the general population, people started to connect with each other and post their thoughts on their own web pages. Thus the very first blogs were born. It is my belief that these very first and somewhat archaic blogs were the forerunners of the modern social media phenomenon. In other words, the first blogs gave rise to present day amenities such as facebook and twitter. These spearheads of the social media movement are now manifesting themselves in a more portable and often more user friendly format: that of an application on a mobile device. One must wonder, since technology grows at an exponential rate (that is, the higher the level of technology you have, the more quickly you can have an even higher technological level. The growth of technology is more parabolic than linear), and such large changes have taken place over the course of as little as 10 years, then how will we be interacting with our fellow man 20 or even 30 years from now? The notions of what could come to be are almost too much for us to comprehend.