Some thoughts unrelated to ProjectPlay

I was fiddling with my iPod and had an interesting thought. This is totally unrelated to this week's ProjectPlay assignment, but since the thought was prompted by these many months of exploring Web 2.0, I decided to add it to this blog!!

So, I grew up in the 60's. My generation was all about "doing your own thing." We claimed to be fighting against the system. "We're the young generation and we've got something to say" the Monkees used to sing. But, we were still

We listened to the music the radio station owners chose to send through the airwaves. When I listened to a Beatles album, I always listened to the same songs in the same order every time. To see a favorite movie, I had to hope a local movie theater would show it, or perhaps one of the three TV networks would show it -- with commercial interruption of course. Heck, we were even tethered to a wall whenever we wanted to talk on the phone to someone!! My parents could only do their banking certain hours of the day. If I wanted information, I had to work around the library schedule, or my parents had to purchase an encyclopedia set.

But NOW! Now we really can do our own thing!! I choose the music I listen to. I choose where I talk on a phone. I choose when and where I watch a movie or TV show. I can get information, do my banking, go shopping, request a library book whenever I want!! And now with the tools I've explored these past months in ProjectPlay, I can customize my Internet experiences as well!!

It took another generation to accomplish it, but we're free from the establishment at last!

Groovy, man!!