Technology U: Prometheus Unbound
September 17th, 2009“Life’s but a walking shadow…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing…”
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth
by Glynn Wilson
The Big Picture
Do you ever feel the pressure of change in your life?
Do you ever get the feeling that new technology is coming on so fast you can’t keep up?
Do you ever get the feeling that there’s too much information in the world, but that not enough of it is getting into the minds of some of the people you know who need it the most?
If so, you are not alone.
We are living in a time of great technological change, greater than at any time in human history. Feelings of stress and anxiety are inevitable, unless you are just determined to use an analogue phone and avoid cell phones, avoid digital cable or satellite TV, to read an old fashioned daily or weekly newspaper instead of getting your news online.
If you are reading this, you are already taking at least one step into the future. If you know someone who refuses to read on the Web, consider printing this out for them. I am about to tell you something that will help you understand and deal with it all.
The only way I know how to do that is to tell some stories. And the only way I know how to tell a story that informs is to put myself into the story. That is “new journalism,” whether the people who still cling to the corporate PR style of detached newspaper journalism are ready for it or not.
