20 years beyond 1984. What did we think it would be like? Flying cars? Food pellets? Cars that turn into briefcases? Or just Big Brother monitoring our every move? Well, we got one of those things. Unfortunately, it isn’t any of the cool, techie things that we thought it might be. We got the monitoring without the flying cars. I… Read more →
Tag: critique
2002.8.27 – why did i ask?
How many rhetorical questions do you ask in one day? 1? 10? 50? If you work in the customer service industry, like me, you probably ask anywhere from 50-100. The main rhetorical question being, “how are you doing today?”. This is a question that very rarely requires an answer longer than 2 or 3 words, yet many customers feel the… Read more →
Keep Your Mouth Shut and Work On
A series of revelations have come to me over the past few weeks. I used to think that looking at a job as being “beneath me” was something that I should never do. That I could never be too good for anything. While this is most certainly true for most things in life, it is not necessarily true about work.… Read more →
Technology and Disenfranchishement
When I say I want to go back to the seventies, it has more to do with technology than nostalgia. Yes, I realize that I am sitting at a computer in a separate room from my husband, listening to a Pandora playlist online, while I type this into a word processing program. Meanwhile, he sits on the couch in the… Read more →
The Evolution of the Internet or How I Became a Social Media Junkie
It all began in 1984. Orwell could not have predicted it any better. Generation X was truly the cohort that would bring about the ways in which Big Brother could infiltrate every facet of our lives. That story is for another time though, since this story is about me and how I got to where I am on the chronological… Read more →
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