It is none of my concern?

Bingo player in a Bingo hall

This morning I came across an interesting article and here is the opening:

Consumers today are incredibly visual. Most would rather look at an image or chart than read an entire article or report. Luckily, there are now ways to fit just as much information into an image as there would normally be in a text article.

In my early ages more than once I read that the dawn of modern times started with Gutenberg who invented the book printing. This makes perfect sense because an idea could be spread to a big audience.

Radio made this process cheaper and faster. The next step was TV. Funny it just crossed my mind that in the early days of TV the program was limited to a few hours per day normally in the evening. Of course because people were busy with their work, even the house wives did not have all the modern machinery to safe them time.

Then the internet came into our lives and at first it was letters and words. With Windows© and better bandwidth pictures became more common and so not long after there was sound and videos. For a long time I was wondering what is YouTube good for and actually held a crutch against it, because I felt it eats up the gain in transmission speed.

In Germany we have a saying: "A picture tells more than 1 thousand words!" And did you observe in yourself that we have less and less time to do what we want to do in the Net? So the trend in us is to spend as little time for one information as possible just to be able to get more information. The webmasters know this and put more and more pictures on a page and make the letters bigger.

The net changes us!

I invite you to an experiment: after you have been browsing or facebooking - is this really a word yes? Take a few minutes and remember what you did the last two hours or so. Not like I was in facebook, but: I learn that…. I was informed of…. I talked with ….

I find it shocking that there is little left of what we remember as essential.

But if it is not essential what do we use to build our personality? Will we stay or become shallow?

The Romans used to give the plebs "Panem et circensis"  (bread and games) we are given facebook and YouTube.

Maybe we are at the dusk of modern times.

Ave Cesar…

Ave Zuckerberg …