1 week to go!
So I'm sitting here thinking crap it's like sunday... and I have to think of something to post before the week's up but I really can't think of anything that will be worth anyone wanting to read. So I'm pretty much going to ramble on about nothing... So I'm warning you now you might want to stop reading here :P
Something interesting my mate was talking about yesterday, apparently her flatmate was bored the other day so he googled his name and found this dude in America with the same name as him and somehow got hold of his email (coz I think his name was somehow linked to a business website or something) and sent him an email pretty much saying "hey mate, you have the same name as me" and he got a reply too. How cool is that?! So me in all my preparation for 3 weeks of procrastination (I study inbetween...) decided I'd see if anyone existed with my name... I found some woman who died a couple a years back so don't think I have any chance of getting a reply from emailing her :( ahh well was worth a try. It's amazing what the internet allows us to do really. 20 years back you'd never be able to contact a complete random on the opposite side of the world simply because he/she shares your name and you thought it would be kind of cool to let them know that you exist. But then again people probably really had no desire to do so either...
Guess it links to the whole technology determinism argument... whether we create it because we have the desire for something and require it to help us fulfill this desire or whether the technology itself tells us that we have a desire for it. I think it's probably a bit of a combination of the both. All one really needs to do to prove the latter is flick through one of those mail order catalogues that mysteriously end up on your doorstep (and then they tell you what day to leave it out so they can come back and collect it... what's with that?!) and suddenly realise how much you have always needed heated slippers, a fluffy toilet seat cover and defluffer device for your shirt - but you never knew you needed them until you knew they existed... and people say that marketing is a challenge...
Well that wasn't really all that bad was it? You did read to the end after all.
Something interesting my mate was talking about yesterday, apparently her flatmate was bored the other day so he googled his name and found this dude in America with the same name as him and somehow got hold of his email (coz I think his name was somehow linked to a business website or something) and sent him an email pretty much saying "hey mate, you have the same name as me" and he got a reply too. How cool is that?! So me in all my preparation for 3 weeks of procrastination (I study inbetween...) decided I'd see if anyone existed with my name... I found some woman who died a couple a years back so don't think I have any chance of getting a reply from emailing her :( ahh well was worth a try. It's amazing what the internet allows us to do really. 20 years back you'd never be able to contact a complete random on the opposite side of the world simply because he/she shares your name and you thought it would be kind of cool to let them know that you exist. But then again people probably really had no desire to do so either...
Guess it links to the whole technology determinism argument... whether we create it because we have the desire for something and require it to help us fulfill this desire or whether the technology itself tells us that we have a desire for it. I think it's probably a bit of a combination of the both. All one really needs to do to prove the latter is flick through one of those mail order catalogues that mysteriously end up on your doorstep (and then they tell you what day to leave it out so they can come back and collect it... what's with that?!) and suddenly realise how much you have always needed heated slippers, a fluffy toilet seat cover and defluffer device for your shirt - but you never knew you needed them until you knew they existed... and people say that marketing is a challenge...
Well that wasn't really all that bad was it? You did read to the end after all.
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