Don’t look now, but I still don’t have a generator so I better write something before the power goes out.
Problem is, I’m not quite sure when that will be.
Sometimes there are teases like when the lights flash or something like that.
At times it could be a harbinger for a power outage, while other times it’s just a momentary, partial disconnect from the grid.
Life can no longer be consistently navigated without an internet connection. We’ve lost our privacy and our identity remains at risk to hackers, yet we soldier on–precautions be damned.
How did we get here?
I don’t know about you, but it does not seem that long ago when dial-up modems were the standard for internet connectivity. Come to realize years after they were replaced by broadband connections, the cons started to rise in terms of being online via a quick connection. You can get into trouble much more quickly with modern connection speeds compared to enduring the amount of waiting we did when dial-up was all the rage.
Was the waiting bad? Not necessarily. You could make a pot of coffee and be halfway through the first cup before your 56K modem connected you to the world.
Waiting is not such a bad thing when compared to the dangers we face today when impulsively clicking on something we should not have.
WAH becomes a widespread thing
Work At Home (WAH) was the holy grail of employment for me at one time, especially once I used online sources to find a job (without benefit of newspaper want ads).
It was only natural to next find a job that was a WAH position.
When I was a typesetter I received some contract work that I did at home, and I failed to be fascinated with it. It wasn’t like a full-time WAH job with benefits like health insurance.
With the slight return to the office for WAH workers on hybrid schedules post pandemic, everything has changed except one thing: we continue to isolate and insulate ourselves from anything and anyone we don’t care for or about.
How ironic it is that some of the biggest fallout from Social Media is the fact we have become so decidedly unsocial.
Don’t like a friend’s political views, unfriend them.
Like someone else because they think exactly like you do? Friend them. This way you’ll have the most boring collection of friends anyone ever imagined.
Is there hope for humanity?
While I like to think there’s always hope and it’s not too late, Las Vegas may be doubling down on the wager that is the human race’s unavoidable extinction.
If we are truly doomed no matter what action or inaction we prefer, I like the asteroid crashing into the earth and shattering it into trillions of pieces ending.
There really is not anything to like about such a scenario, but since no one has the answer regarding the way we currently live being unsustainable, complete obliteration by forces beyond man’s control could end up being a popular option.
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