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Does the New Flying Car Scare You As Much As It Scares Me?
Technology has always been something that terrified me.
Not in the way that you’re thinking. I’m not afraid to use tech. If anything, I’m the first to embrace the newest thing and to marvel at it’s implications. The world is changing faster than is ever has before in human history, and it has been a lot of fun to be present for. I often think about how incredible it must be for the oldest among us who saw the world change from a time when a horse and buggy were the primary forms of transportation to the world as it is today, where transference of information between anywhere in the world is almost instantaneous. I envy how incredible that journey must have been for them, but I’m equally as excited about my own journey and optimistic that I will see something just as incredible, if not more so. I just hope that I live to be old enough to see what the future holds.
Today I saw the video for a new flying car that could potentially be on the market in the next few years, and I am petrified by the thought. See, technology scares me because it changes everything. The internet and the personal computer have completely changed the way the world communicates, and we will never be able to go back to the way it was before. Could a flying car do the same thing for the way we travel? In a few years could we be driving to a sky-way exit instead of a free way exit? Could getting across the country take only a few hours instead of a few days?
The idea of a vehicle we can back out of our drive way, drive to a run way and then take off and fly it where we want is, for me at least, a simultaneously exciting and scary thing. I think about the exciting possibilities of people being able to travel great distances in much shorter spans of time. I think about families who live in different parts of the country and will be able to see each other more often, about business people who will spend less time traveling, about the tourism that could be generated by making a cheap, easy way to travel great distances. All of these things are incredible advances, and surely everyone will benefit from them. What am I afraid of? But then I think about what could disappear from our lives. What will happen to the airline industry? Where will those jobs go? Stewardesses, pilots, airport security personnel, I’m sure the jobs won’t disappear entirely, but I imagine if this flying car thing becomes a consumer level product there certainly wont be as many of them. I even think about the cultural affects.
The thrill of air travel will leave us. What will happen to all of the classic airline food jokes we all love to hate? All of these changes scare me, because I think that the hardest thing to remember about life is that if you stand still you fall behind. I do not want to fall behind, but I’m afraid that I wont be able to keep up.
What do you think? Am I being paranoid? Are flying cars going to be awesome, or are they going to change things for the worse?
Apr. 04.
Every day I wonder, is this the change we have all been waiting for? The whole world is making drastic changes , including the earth herself, and we still don’t seem to notice. We currently have all the resources, money, technology and time , to change the world,for the BETTER! But, I’m not sure its gonna happen. We are all waiting for the sky to open up and the rays of light to come through and WHAM, its a bright new day. Not gonna happen. We must be the change. Change your space ,your attitude, your surrounding, your diet, your daily schedule, your mindset, your willingness to try something new. Do this and I guarantee you will be the change. Social Media is the new buzz word ,but it does have the power to connect messages and spread connective energy. So dive in and conect with some like minds…BE the change. This is a short burst of Kinetic Thought. Keep it moving!
Jan. 28.
What is a professional volunteer? A question posed to me by one of my compadres. Well it goes like this; works very hard helping others,promoting different events, spends own money on things that don’t directly benefit themselves,have very long days, and long nights, and of course believe in service. Whats the problem with that ,right? The only problem is that it sounds like a job. It is a job and the compensation is nil. This does bring a lot of change and helps others ,but burnout and debt run very close by. This is comment ,or blog one in this dialogue about volunteerism. But wait, we just started, the good stuff comes next!
Jan. 26.
You can grab a free handful of fresh strawberries, graze on some herbs, and see how tilapia fish help fertilize lettuce in the greenhouse in Reading’s City Park.
A group called Permacultivate has transformed the building into a futuristic demonstration of how worms, fish, plants and people can work together to produce organic food, even in January.
Students from Alvernia University worked on their service requirement at the greenhouse on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
See it all in Ed Terrell’s video. Watch Permacultivate Greenhouse MLK DAY 2012 Video.
The greenhouse is open for visitors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Call Brian Twyman at 484-525-0290 for information.
Jan. 07.
Welcome-
If you are connected with this network, you will likely wonder, HOW , WHAT , WHERE , WHY! This is exactly what we aim to accomplish. Not to try and play with your minds, but to keep your minds active, interested and informed. Topics like Sustainability, Professional Volunteering, Gardening, Blackenomics, Organic Food, SEO, SEM, Progressive Politics and Spiritual Enlightenment will be the norm. So Stayed tuned and ride this wave straight through 2012!
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