Jeffrey McLarty

Warning: It’s real late, and you should read the entire thing, before thinking less of me.

I wonder what it’ll be like 50 years from now?

Right now…

Everything is digital. Everything exists permanently. Everybody consumes more information than they used to. Everybody knows more people.

The revolution of the flow of information is upon & behind us. The leaders have already embraced it. We’re in the second half of a bubble where the laggards are joining the revolution. Now we have to all learn how to exist within it. The leaders that were hear first, will reap and leverage rewards in the form of capitalist and non-fiscal present value. Innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors are accelerating with the flow of information. So fast, I can feel it whizzing past me. It’s chilling to be part of it. I’m so glad I am.

Seriously, don’t shoot the guy trying to be poetically full of nauseating foresight, but everything I said is true. There are still people I know, who don’t realize it. So I wrote the above, even tho others have said before me, but just in my own (nauseating) words haha!

In 50 years, am I going to be jacked in so much that when my friend buys a stock, I’ll get the choice whether or not I want to execute a market order at the same instance? Will people complain about SPAM in their neural networks? Will fuzzy logic be more common place than digital? Side note - there’s an idea - a fuzzy blog theme. I’m not talking about hair, if you’re not a geek, it’s too hard to explain. When are we going to be able to search by pixel instead of strings? And when are true, large scale, social network collaborative tools going to actually be efficient? Or how about the evolution of the IDE - no more text based code, not even image based. I want a thought based software development platform. That’s right, they will likely have to move way past gesture based input, and figure out thought based user input methods first. Oh, that will be a fluffy field - User Centered Thought Based Design.

But what is 50 years going to bring to networking? They say there is 6 degrees of separation between any two people on earth, but that shrinking. Surely there is an upper bound to the number of people a sane (productive) person can follow on twitter. But thousands of followers means degrees of separations are shrinking.

How can I participate in this shrinking world while leveraging my youth? By doing what I’m doing(?) - Talking to myself - haha!

Disclosure - I’m already long the flow of information

I’m glad I’m not popular enough to have ever been in a blog fight. They look exhausting. I’ve only witnessed two up until now, and I’ll admit, I almost started one myself, a while back, until I cooled off. But, I just about joined in the fun moments ago, about to side with Ingram - Simply because I like Matt and I like Howard. When really, I had no business doing that, I haven’t read everything about the fight. So, instead, I refrained and thought, the first time I find myself in a blog fight, or want to join one, I swear I will just surf away. The only thing I will do is keep posting links, to this very post instead of making arguments. Whoever I’m arguing with, I’ll waste there time, with confusion and anxiety. Because, It’s a waste of everybody’s time. No matter what anyone on the Internet is fighting about, chances are, it’s just two different opinions until it gets personal. Stop hating folks, use your time more constructively. Just stop.

What provoked this is me reading a tweet, from Howard, with a negative comment with respect to Duncan. Then I read half of what he had to say on the link through. I’m purposely not liking to Howard’s negative tweet, because it wasn’t actually part of the fight which spawned Ingram’s pretty well structured, and likely right on the money, post - but, I admit, I don’t know the entire story, likely nobody does. Of course I had to check out Duncan’s site…I got half way down the first or second paragraph of his March 15th post, when he wrote about Bull Tits. That’s when I stopped.

Duncan referred to something, I can’t even remember what, as “useless as tits on a bull”. That’s when I remembered my boss at Zehrs, way back when I was 15 calling one of my co-workers that very same thing “useless as tits on a bull”. My boss liked to swear at everything, tell racist jokes, and was generally disliked. Causality or Correlation? You decide. He jumped up and down, pissed off about everything, most of the time. He was wrong more often then he was right, that was part of the problem. It wasn’t his fault, he was divorced and uneducated. That statement “useless as tits on a bull” is exactly my point, and a sign of things getting out of control. The statement, if used derogatorily (is that a word - I don’t care), is ironically less useful than whatever it’s attempting to call useless. Same goes for pretty much all other profanity. Even if the target of any such derogatory metaphor is extremely useless, or some other form of negativity, it [the statement] does no good, and adds no value. The statement, profanity in general, and blog fights have something in common.

Note: If you’re reading this, and it’s not March 2008, it means it’s the future now, and I’ve stumbled into a blog fight with you or someone you know. I am directing you to this link, so I don’t have to waste my time reading whatever personal attacks or other well thought out highly verbose debate you are part of. That’s right, it’s a premptive blog post and argument, so I don’t have to waste any more of my future time. This post is an investment. That’s present value.

We are lucky to be blessed with the ability to share information through the internet, don’t let humanity screw it up, the same way we abuse everything else we’re given. Eg. A diverse planet.

By the way, the other blog fight was between Julia and some random guy. It was a waste of time too. But to myself, I sided with Julia, but refrained from participating - cause I didn’t know the entire story.

Also, everyone should be careful what they call useless, if you read this post carefully, I didn’t call blog fights useless. I did call them a waste of time - because there are more optimum ways one can spend there time. Like vacationing, right Matt? Hope you’re having fun in Florida bud.