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Now all of my Bandmix friends can find me on Twitter (I'm known as MrUpshot on Twitter). I have no idea why I did so, but a businessman I associate with told me it's a good thing to do. Does anybody here have any good experiences on Twitter?

There are a bazillion on line chat / profile services. I am not sure what "business advantage" could be gained by being involved in any or all of them.

I guess it's just another form of publicity. Barack Obama used Twitter to announce his choice of Joe Biden as V.P. Twitter is a method of informing people what you're doing right at the moment. I'm not sure I'd have as many people interested in me as are interested in Obama...

Haha. Cmon, man, that's for jailbait chicks and "supposedly famous" jailbait chicks.

Naw Andrew thats the other service twatter.

Hahaha. They ain't jailbait no more...

Unfortunately there are so many 'must haves' (Apparently though I don't believe it for a minute), that one day you'll eventually forget what you said where, that you posted your social and address somewhere and you'll never find it.

Twitter is just one of the many initial baby steps towards Borg-ism. Resistance is futile.

But seriously - think about it for a few minutes. A long time ago all we had was news by word of mouth. Tribes of humans could go months without contact from other tribes. Isolation was the norm. Humans in one area of the globe could make amazing advancements in technology, science or medicine, and no one else might know about it for a very long time. Information traveled at the speed of a man, then the speed of a horse. Then came writing and written mail, but the speed wasn't any faster.

Eventually the telephone, television and the radio shrunk our world. We were given more speed - more immediate information.

Then the internet. BANG - instant information. Instant messaging, e-mail, news that we could read about moments after it happened instead of waiting for the six o'clock news or the morning paper. And all the while these advancements feed into our desire for immediacy.

Now there's cellphones, iPhones, Blackberries, blogs, Facebook and Twitter. We move closer and closer to a globalized web of instant information with every leap in technology. And physically, we've added in-ear cellphone jacks to our arsenal. You no longer have to actually open up your portable phone to talk; you can just yammer away and your headset does the work for you.

Twitter is a landmark, watershed moment for technology and information. It gets us one step closer to becoming a collective, Borg-like race. The next logical steps are cybernetic implants and memory aids. With an implant, there won't even be a need for an in-ear phone; you'' be able to Twitter without having to actually type anything or open up a keyboard of any kind. Soon, you'll be able to think, "I just bought a new car" and everyone who is "subscribed" to your Borg account will get an immediate update in their neural implant.

And adding hard disk storage to that implant as a memory aid will get you one step closer to mimicking a photographic memory. Who needs to actually remember the periodic table when you can just call up the last visual image that your eyes ever saw when you happened to stare at that chart? With your artificial "brain" tapped into your retina, anything is possible.


I expect all of this to happen. I also expect a huge backlash. I think the next great world war will have as much to do about religion as the previous ones - but this time it will be a religious war fought between tecnho-Borgs and "naturalists".

Nice one yet again Colors.
Eventually it may be even more far reaching than that too.

When we are sat next to each other with our brains in bottles of bubbling water perhaps we'll converse and write on the fly and every insect will dance to our tune, (At least for the time being).

ColorsFade wrote:And adding hard disk storage to that implant as a memory aid will get you one step closer to mimicking a photographic memory.

Cool! My singer won't have to keep that damn music stand as a crutch with him on stage.

Oh You borged me pretty hard that time Ratsass. Kick that crutch right out from under me. Hope I dont fall on my Paul.

But Sans, I was only talkin' 'bout MY singer.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I have been working on getting away from that crutch. I love being mobile on stage, jam with the bass, jam with the drummer, jack with the vocalist. hehehe.
I keep my stand off to my far left in case my brain goes on vapor lock.

I already have followers on Twitter. They have no friggin idea who I am and they're following me. (Sorta sounds like the people who voted for Obama).