I was able to sit in Costa at East Croydon train station, messaging someone on facebook about doing their gig, while replying to incoming texts from the person I was supposed to be meeting, while also liaising with someone I was supposed to meet the following day, via their incoming phone-call. None of these interruptions deleted my message on facebook.
I never thought I would live to see this day.
Technology is amazing. I don't care if robots take over the world and kill us all now. It will have been worth it.
Then the next day I went to see Avatar at the I max, and learnt all about how actually living at one with nature is better than having technology. The exact opposite sentiment of how I had just decided to live my life by.
Actually I am surprised that this film is so popular, especially in America, as it is a very thinly disguised allegorical tale about the pitfalls of stealing other peoples land. It's a bit like the war in Iraq, or what happened to the American Indians, or the Aboriginals; except with a wildly different ending. In the film, the 'Americans' don't win. And they especially love winning. Sometimes they even pretend they have, when they haven't because they love it so much.
Also in the film, there is nothing the native aliens want from the humans, so they can't be bargained with.
I would suggest an i phone. They didn't try an i phone in the film.
It's a great ecological messaged film. And it's popularity is fantastically ironic. I wonder why humans feel this need to pretend we could be good, when we clearly couldn't. If we could, surely we would have by now.
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