You ever have one of those days where you’re like, “Man, technology today is totally awesome”? Because, well, it totally is. And I’m having one of those days.
I always BBM, email and phone with my phone, and sometimes I kill time with games, but today I took it to a whole new level.
It started when I was looking for a parking spot today near a local restaurant. I found one, near a sign I’ve never been able to understand.
Then sheer brilliance struck: I would tweet @CityofVancouver and ask them what it means! Sure enough, they responded within 30 minutes with a precise answer.
After coordinating dinner plans with Jen, on my phone, we were killing time while waiting for Karine to show up. (Bus transit technology isn’t as cool.) She showed me this wicked video, which I was able to watch right then and there at the table.
A couple hours later, I’m on my couch and I send that same video to Keelan who would undoubtedly appreciate it. He also watched it on his phone and then we texted each other about how crazy it was.
Then Karine asks me for Jen’s number and it takes literal seconds to find it in my address book, copy and paste it.
This day-to-day mobile lifestyle we’ve created didn’t exist 10 years ago. We totally take it for granted.
…Yeah, my life is really boring right now. How’d you guess?
I remember the day when I was just happy that I no longer had to type out stories on an actual typewriter. My first was not even electric, but manual. We have come along way, baby.
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