Wed, Aug 13, 2008 15:00 EDT

A Digital Explorer in Analog Roam

Topic: Applications

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We’re all connected to the world; we phone; we email; we text; we’re linked in and we twitter. And because we’re connected to the world, the world is our workplace.

Some days going to work means waiting to board.

Waiting to board

There is a lot of deep blue sky, silver engines and white clouds.

Blue sky, white clouds

Yet, since we operate in a wireless world, we can plug in from anywhere to get things done (I work from my garden when I can).

Garden office and associate

We spend time in airports waiting for airplanes.

Waiting in Denver

Yet we yearn to slow down and contemplate those things so hard to put into words.

Thinking about life...

Like how sunlight reflects off clouds.

Vancouver sunset

And the translucent effect of sunlight on tiger lilies.

Sunlight on tiger lily

We plug into this massively multiplayer online game we call the global economy to learn skills, build networks, earn our reputations, and seek our fortunes. Events unfold in ways most fascinating, bewildering, unpredictable and mysterious.

These thoughts come to me on a summer day as I walk along the lakefront,

Cathedral clouds

And ponder this city where I live. These pictures come to you through the camera in my cell phone; the phone that’s always on, my connection to the world.

Sweet Home Chicago

“Everybody's on the phone
So connected and all alone
From the pizza boy to the socialite
We all salute the satellites

Let me text you with your master plan
You're loud and clear but I don't understand
I'm a digital explorer in analog roam
And everybody's on the phone”

(Jimmy Buffett/Will Kimbrough, from the song Everybody’s on the Phone, 2006)

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