Farewell to the
Naughties! pt.3

Gilly Sinlow, “Popped Culture”
Perhaps the coolest thing about the
last decade was the empowerment
of technology by means of
productivity, service areas,
accessibility, affordability, mobility,
cultural power shifts and the Internet
identity that many people now have.
| have a Facebook account that
demands only my attention when

| feel like it. | have a Google email
account that serves me far better
than my Hotmail account does. |
also have a username that | use for
my iTunes account, my Neopets
account and even my Nintendo Wii!
When | want to check my Facebook
on the go, | would flip open my

LG Keybo (a qwerty keyboard cell
phone) and go on my web browser,
access Facebook Mobile and look
up people’s statuses and what they
have to say about anything on his or
her mind.

If | do not want to engage in that, |
can always browse my mobile web
browser for new pictures to use as
wall paper or find a ringtone that
can cut and paste a segment from a
song that is new and hot in that time
and place. For example, | bought a
steamy firefighter posing topless for
the camera and found a Lady Ga
Ga song that | liked and bought it as
a ringtone. | set the new song up for
when | get new text messages and
made my Futurama Theme song my
income calling ringtone.

The latter of which | change barely
while | buy a new ringtone for

my text message almost monthly
depending on how frequently | hear
that tone before | feel that the song
has become stale.

While | text my buddies, | often have
ear plugs in while | listen to my iPod
Touch. Sometimes | would listen to
artsy folk music while other times |
would want to tech out to the likes
of Madonna or eve Bass Hunters. If
that doesn't satisfy me, then it would
be the shows | have downloaded

that would meet my needs. For
example, | watch the new season
of The Simpsons on days where |
need a good laugh while | watch Big
Bang Theory if | feel like geeking
out to geek chic show.

On top of all that, | may go without
my phone and iPod if there is a
computer in front me. This portal
opens up to virtual community
where | play in flashcard games on
Facebook, of networks like iSketch.
net or even raise Tamagotchi-like

animals called Neopets if | want
something to kill hours of my time.
Perhaps there are many more
stories like mine. Who knows? '
may even hear about the books
being permanently discarded for
E-books or even reduced to using
the Kinley for text books in colleges
and universities alike!

Think of a day where all our
textbooks all show up on a screen
and save hundreds of trees and
money in our pockets.

~ GLOBAL GOURMET
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