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Global Comms

From my journal yesterday:
My generation is the one primed and ready for a globalist culture:

  • Sharing stories via telephone with a friend in Nigeria

  • Telling mom about my day while she shops in North Carolina

  • Listening to my Dominican friend try to win the heart of a Guatamalan girl in Texas

  • Sending a random, non-sensical text to a friend in Minnesota

  • Receiving pictures of Victoria Falls from a friend sitting in a hostel in South Africa

  • My sister telling me to let Mom and Dad know she's safe after arriving in France

  • Sending her cell number to a friend who will also be in France this summer

  • Reading her brother's blog about his adventures in Peru

  • Making smalltalk with a friend as she lounges with her family on vacation in Wisconsin

  • Ordering used books from an Ebayer on the west coast

  • Getting a comment on my blog from a man who also lived in Jengre, Nigeria as a child (Decades before me)

  • Receiving a party invitation from a friend in Michigan

  • And another wanting me to visit her in Chicago

  • Uploading websites for work to Seattle while asking a tech to update another server in New Jersey

  • Tech support from India

  • My boss's wife talking business in French on the phone to Quebec

  • Streaming music from Russia

  • Working closely with web designers in the Philippines

  • News from Britain

  • Receiving a bug report from Ireland

  • Grandpa commenting on my blog from Oklahoma

  • Me posting to another blog in California

  • People from all over the world discussing it

  • A private forum connecting my close friends who are scattered across the country

  • A friend in Michigan zooming in on a satellite image of the mall we're going to meet at tomorrow

  • And another downloading a pirated video from Sweden


... This was my past couple of weeks. Tell me our society is not absolutely amazing.
SigmaX

posted on June 20, 2008 11:17 PM ()

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