A Mobile Day, A Mobile Thought
Being that I was on the road today, I could appreciate being accessible to what was going on around me via my Treo. This is not an accident, as I literally have made my mobile phone the center of my computing life. To some extent, I think that for a lot of people (speaking of those outside of the 1st world sect of those who interact thru desktops and laptops, and more towards those who computing lives is their mobile phone) that the mobile phone will become the hub around which other technology will be used.
This is highlighted in an article at CNet and I do have to agree with the outlook/perspective that the mobile phone, not the PC is probably the most infulential technology of the past 25 years (a close second to PacMan IMO). But what does this outlook mean for you (who might not even care that your phone does more than take/make calls) or for the person who has a smartphone and does the call/email/text side of things? More than anything, it means that you have an opportunity, much moreso than any generation or person before you, to effect the positive outcome of every person that you come in contact with.
Sure, in the MMM context of things this means addressing education, poverty, enablement, and social justice. But in a much broader scale, mobile phones represent a door that really cannot shut. This door is called opportunity. While carriers and companies hash out DRM (digital rights management) issues that make it harder for you to enjoy literature, music, the web...well, everything. A mobile phone is a door that says that the world is open.
Now let me preface this post in this much at this point. There is no substitute for eduication, fair judgement, or Christ. You just cannot take those elements out of the human equasion without someone eventually getting that empty feeling. No fancy phone, superfast wireless service, website or magazine would be able to fill that. Mobile phones, and the Internet that serves it, are just tools to help us fix communication lines that should not be broken.
"When I was naked, you clothed me; when I was hungry, you fed me, when I was sick you visited me; when I was in jail, you comforted me..." I have the belief that mobile technology makes it easier to live up to that bar that Jesus set. Not so much because we get to be Oprah and do the big showy things, but becaue we can do the small things that lead up to the big things.
I do hope that you take a few moments today in the mist of your mobile life to think about just where mobile technology is taking you, or where you can take it.
This is highlighted in an article at CNet and I do have to agree with the outlook/perspective that the mobile phone, not the PC is probably the most infulential technology of the past 25 years (a close second to PacMan IMO). But what does this outlook mean for you (who might not even care that your phone does more than take/make calls) or for the person who has a smartphone and does the call/email/text side of things? More than anything, it means that you have an opportunity, much moreso than any generation or person before you, to effect the positive outcome of every person that you come in contact with.
Sure, in the MMM context of things this means addressing education, poverty, enablement, and social justice. But in a much broader scale, mobile phones represent a door that really cannot shut. This door is called opportunity. While carriers and companies hash out DRM (digital rights management) issues that make it harder for you to enjoy literature, music, the web...well, everything. A mobile phone is a door that says that the world is open.
Now let me preface this post in this much at this point. There is no substitute for eduication, fair judgement, or Christ. You just cannot take those elements out of the human equasion without someone eventually getting that empty feeling. No fancy phone, superfast wireless service, website or magazine would be able to fill that. Mobile phones, and the Internet that serves it, are just tools to help us fix communication lines that should not be broken.
"When I was naked, you clothed me; when I was hungry, you fed me, when I was sick you visited me; when I was in jail, you comforted me..." I have the belief that mobile technology makes it easier to live up to that bar that Jesus set. Not so much because we get to be Oprah and do the big showy things, but becaue we can do the small things that lead up to the big things.
I do hope that you take a few moments today in the mist of your mobile life to think about just where mobile technology is taking you, or where you can take it.
posted by Antoine @ 7/25/2006 02:10:00 AM
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