i've gone on way too long about my dryer problem (which is no longer a problem, thx to repairpeople of the world - bless you all!) but it got me to thinking about immediacy.... when i put clothes in the dryer, my expectation is being able to have clean and dry clothes later in the evening. since the washer was working fine and dandy, i continued to run a load of wash but chose to hang clothes all around to air dry. it reminds me of hanging laundry on the line outside - remember what clothespins were really for? anyway, air drying took just a day for most things to completely dry. the only downside was stiffer towels :) and pants....
but, isn't immediacy is what search engines are selling? not really, how well can you type or how well can you evaluate resources, but "here are some results fast ... returned in .0000005 seconds"
what happened to our world of waiting for things? even christmas has been moved up and we start to see these decorations right after halloween. heaven forbid that we wait until after thanksgiving any longer. with tivo we can see anything we want whenever we want 'cuz we couldn't see it when it was actually showing. same with "on demand". email is immediate; letter writing isn't. our cell phones are immediate cuz we carry them; gone are pay phones!
while this may sound more like a rant, than a blog post ~ and i'm not knocking immediacy ~ i wonder what kind of mentality we're building......... your thoughts or have i just consumed too much sugar today?
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