Saturday, March 27, 2010

Message of the Day - Passivity is Passé

Good Morning,
 
My friend Dennis sent me this video clip of Clay Shirky (www.shirky.com), http://laughingsquid.com/clay-shirky-on-cognitive-surplus/ promising it would be an interesting video. This is a keynote speech about  "cognitive surplus" and it was indeed interesting.
 
One idea that came out at the end of the speech really caught my attention. Clay Shirky talked about how eventually every form of media (web, electronic devices, tools, toys, etc.) will come with a way to interact with it. Like a computer which has such peripherals as a mouse and keyboard among others, future devices will also have ways to interact with them.
 
In a bigger sense, this means that everything within our lives will have some facet of being interactive, and by being interactive, it allows us to be connected with others in ways that we never thought of before. For example, Facebook and MySpace opened the door for people to communicate with each other faster and more easily than ever before, exploding the genre of social networking. Some appliances now are internet ready to communicate with the manufacturer.
 
This means that as we move forward, day after day, year after year, we will find more and more ways to be in touch with others through easier and easier ways. Like the telephone to pager, to cell phone, to camera phones to internet enabled phones to social networking enabled devices.
 
Our days of sitting at home or on the beach and doing nothing but relaxing in solitude are in jeopardy. Being unconnected is getting harder and harder with how interconnected many parts of our live current are, and will continue to grow moving forward.
 
With this looming over us, it is up to us to decide how we would like to be a part of this change. The decision to not be a part is probably not possible these days in how we are connected even if we do nothing we feel worthy of being connected about. For example, Google yourself every now and then and see what comes up. You may find your name associated with an organization that you are a part of which has going the route of social networking.
 
As we look to how we want to be a part of the interconnected world, we should all take some time to think about how we wish to be interconnected. And for parents, please realize that your kids are probably more connected than you are.
 
The choice to sit back and wait it out is going away, so unless you have that cabin deep in the woods or on the mount miles from civilization, then its best we come up with a plan to embrace the tsunami of connectedness that is coming our way.
 
Enjoy!
 
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