Four weeks ago I watched a coach strap a tiny go pro video camera to his head and tape the game he was coaching against my team. Twenty four years ago I held a giant video camera the size of a small pig that was described as a huge advancement in miniaturization. The go pro had better resolution. The fact is we live in a time that is so vastly different than the era of my youth that it is practically unrecognizable.
I get the naysayers. In some ways we are still battling through Maslow’s hierarchy, using this new technology to act out ancient social conflicts. This is true–nothing about our wants and needs has changed in a fundamental way. We still want power, safety, sex. What is new and changes our world fundamentally is how thoroughly we wage these conflicts in cyberspace; non-material reality.
We are now too often passengers in our lives, living through the captured images of life spooled through the internet.