I started this blog because I wanted to share my evolution and journey. I needed a place to share my thoughts and advice and I wanted to engage with technology in an efficient way to spread my messages to people that may care and relate. A lot of what I discuss will be deep and some of it will be casual. But it will always be honest and positive. I love to create paintings, I love to write, and I love to photograph. I find life interesting and full of lessons, emotions, and gifts. By capturing some of that I find a lot of fulfillment. But I also seek wisdom and evolution and I know many of you do too. I am more than an optical contributor concerned with aesthetic. I am concerned with being alive, being human, and making my mark on the world. We all create; everyday we create moments, feelings, and reactions to people or ideas. To be human is to create. Do you create with reverence or with neglect?
Technology can be an incredible tool. It can allow people to share ideas with the click of a button. It can allow us to order up a car, blouse, or pizza right to our door step. It can allow us to build communities while being miles apart.
Technology is racing to be the innovators of everything that isn't and it offers dollar signs to whoever can get there first. The tech industry is at the top of the industrial food chain these days and therefore, we are influenced to keep up with the innovation to fund the giant beast. We are conditioned to feel like it is everything and we are less without it. We are marketed to like crazy toward the latest gadget. For instance the new Apple iPhone is about to be released. They are hyping the release of the latest iPhone 8 while also creating a demand for the release of the next latest iPhone 10. What happened to iPhone 9? Confused? Me too. The iPhone 8 is coming out in the near future but that's not what all of the media and buzz is concerned with. Instead the buzz is around the iPhone 10. To be released in the more distant future. This new iPhone 10 has technology that will recognize the users facial features to access the phone in the same way that a password once did. This means that apple with create a data-base of every users face and store that to be associated with their digital footprint. We will further be integrated with technology. Literally in your face technology is here and it's here to stay.
Integrated is a great word but things get choked in clouds of smoke when integration becomes inundation. When the technology that was meant to serve us begins to rule us. I know it sounds dramatic but honestly I get a little freaked out when my uber driver pulls over in the middle of five lanes on Santa Monica blvd just because the gps system on his smart phone tells him we have reached the destination. And if you google "person drives car into water following gps directions" you will find results of atleast a dozen or so stories of people driving into lakes and rivers because they were so inundated with technologies' directions they didn't engage their own common sense to literally stay on track. Technology is great entertainment and facilitates a lot of convenience. But wisdom is still out there in archaic books that house voices of the pioneers that made this world the incredibly rich and fruitful place we have come to know. Pioneers that took us to the moon and made discoveries like we haven't seen since. Wisdom is still out there yearning for it to be soaked up along with the latest technology so that we walk responsibly into the future. Last week the LA Times ranked George Orwell's futuristic thriller 1984 as the top bestseller on the fiction list. I think a lot of people out there are starting to become aware of how real that fictional book is today in 2017. Let's stay one step ahead of the technology curve and exercise our human power to decide which technologies we engage in, when we engage them, and how.