A Scribe in a Videophile World
Sometimes as I watch the world around me, I think it has gone insane. Who would have thought that the phone would be how we would interpret the world? I know that I didn't.
As a young kid, I had read the Dick Tracy comics and knew all about the watch that he would talk into when receiving messages. So yea, someone already has done that. I even thought that we would have video glasses. Someone has done that too.
But I never thought that the phone would become a computer. So in the late 80s, we had some of those phones that were connected to a battery as big as a woman's purse. They were heavy. We used them for security purposes. Basically one of the first hand held phones.
It took shortening the bus on the computer (tech talk--warning) to start making computer smaller. Plus the batteries had to be redesigned to hold more power and to be less heavier. I still think that there is more they could do for batteries. I'm not a designer or a creator in that field.
When memory became cheaper and once again you could stuff more data into a smaller space, it also revolutionized computers. Without these innovations we wouldn't have a smart phone today.
Maybe we would be as insane though. Think about it. People walk around muttering to themselves. In the old days they were just insane. Today they are having full conversations in public on their phones.
In the old days you didn't have your own theme music in your phone. Instead you listened to birds, animals, and the traffic around you. You weren't in danger of walking into the street in front of on coming traffic because you were looking for a rare pokemon.
Insane.
I'm not that old. Just turned the big 6-0. I remember if you wanted to research something, anything, you went to the library. You wrote it down with a pen and paper. You wrote your research paper by hand and if you had enough money, you would rent a typewriter so that your paper would look better than the other students. If you made one mistake, you would have to type the entire page.
I typed my first paper on a manual typewriter. I thought that I was living the life of luxury when I bought my own electric typewriter. Maybe a decade later, I had my first computer.
I even grew up without television until I left home in my early twenties.
Maybe I am anachronistic. Maybe I just love words, but I would rather read than watch videos.
This also puts me in a disadvantage when I want to showcase my work.
Recently I tried to do a video. Maybe I am too hard on myself. However I speak too slow, there is little nuance, and what I see on video is not what I see in my head. It makes me look slow. It doesn't help that I have lived alone for so long.
I like words. I like how they mar the white page. I like how they feel in my hands and in my head. I like how my imagination can take words and turn them into worlds.