They tell me that I’m
too young to be jaded and cynical about society, but let’s be honest if no-one
else is going to be then we are at the beginning of the end. You would be
forgiven for thinking that you had stumbled across the post of a pretentious
counter-culture blogger, moping around inside with almost translucent skin from
lack of sunshine.
However I am a lover
of culture in its many forms including technology and our apparent ever growing
symbiosis with it. Yes, technology is great and has revolutionised almost every
part of our everyday lives, but we are now reaching a point where technology
has become a new culture in an almost quasi-religious form. Apple and their
devoted following of Apple-ites get a lot of stick in the press and on the
internet by those not so symbiotically reliant on the next “i-Innovation”,
however I do not feel they are alone in this problem and it is spreading
throughout other areas of entertainment technology.
The best example of
this at the moment is that of the iPhone 5 and the ‘New’ slimmer PS3 console
being released. What is wrong with these you may ask, well it isn’t the
products themselves that there is anything wrong with, but more the fact that
people will so readily change from their perfectly functioning predecessors for
a newer shinier version of what they already have with little noticeable
advantageous technological gain.
