Go slow? Get physical?

Go slow? Get physical?

Really, I mean it. I am saying this because almost everything (I mean every technology) around us seems to be trying hard to go as fast as it can, save as much time as it can and trying desperately to free mankind from the physical space.. the best and ‘quickest’ explanation that I want to give for this is the printer. All the technology is printing is looking forward to that one day when it could rid the device of the reality that the physical imprinting of ink on a piece of paper is necessary for the printing to be complete. Till that day printing will continue to be ‘physical’ and hence ‘slow’ and expensive. To understand this more please watch Matrix-1 and see how science fiction of 2001 had (and perhaps science of 2021 would) separate human existence from the ‘physical’ space. Our existence would be released into a virtual space because only that would be the most efficient way of living left..

Communicating in flesh and blood was replaced by telephone; telephone in many ways has been challenged by communication via the net..
There was a time when year was more on seasons than a calendar..
There was a time when the movement of sun or extent of light recorded the time of the day. Today it is the movement of the clock or just the blinking of the second’s dots in a digital watch or worst still, just a record of hours that guides us what we should be doing, at that hour!

Even the ‘game’ is moving out of the neighbouring playground and into screen in front of the joystick controlled ‘gaming’ console..

Last example for this post – even the photograph has disappeared from the shelf above the TV trolley and have gone into the computer or the ‘cee pee you’ as a 12 year old kid would call it.

I do not say that was good I cannot say this is bad but I definitely observe the change and I am actively trying to put together implications..

Every morning when I drive to work I see these flashes all around me. May be I am thinking too much but the mere act of rolling up my car’s windows (and blocking pollution of air and sound!) seems to be an early indicator of how in the time to come we’d be making our physical space unworthy as a habitat and we’d be so hard pressed on energy sources thanks to all the power hungry devices that we need to make our life faster and more convenient.
The under ground oil and gas would be gone, the winds would perhaps not blow the way windmills want them to and other renewable sources of energy would at best be in adequate. And we’d be forced to retract into what I referred to earlier as (and you saw in Matrix-1) the virtual space..

Think. What could be the implications if physical space is gone, energy is out, physical goes virtual & and all that we are left with is speed..?