Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Spam-a-lot


Among the many pleasures of living in a big city is the constant access to everything technological. You can keep up to date on everything you want instantly if you have one of those fancy gizmos which works as a phone, email and internet compacted to a thing the size of a credit card. It's amazing how well connected people get, and instant knowledge makes sure party conversations never dry up. RSS feeds and emails will plop into your gizmo making you a walking 24 hour news channel, all thanks to the inventions of busy America. In a sense these gizmos seem to be invented with such small gaps so as to keep people busy from getting bored. Perhaps needed in a place where people average a seven minute attention span. When I recently considered upgrading from Gizmo 1 to Gizmo 2, a huge pull was the fact that the busy people in the invention plant had made Gizmo 2 foolproof, which is what I needed seeing that I still don't fully understand Gizmo 1. But upon further contemplation, I realized that with this new technology also follows an older, more annoying technology; spam. Which begs the question, do I really need to read about how Barry got a huge cock, and Viagra will save your marriage 24 hours a day? I think not. Welcome back Gizmo 1.