Apr 29, 2007 0
Instant Gratification
The Web and all it has to offer is making patience obsolete. We’re now used to getting:
- Instant entertainment: Have 30 seconds of downtime? See what’s new on the YouTube home page or click your StumbleUpon toolbar button for a quick fix.
- Instant news: Have all the bad things in the world gone away? Better check Google News again to see.
- Instant financial updates: Why wait for your monthly statements when you can go online and spy on your money to see what it’s doing this very second?
- Instant weather reports: You checked the weather this morning. The temperature may have moved a degree since then, so you might want to check that forecast again.
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My generation thinks this is all pretty amazing. Before the Web, we waited for the 6 p.m. news to find out what was going on. For entertainment, we’d plan our week around being home on a specific day and time to watch a favorite TV show. For a younger generation, stories of life 20 years ago must sound like something out of Little House on the Prairie. The pace of life back then must seem snail-like. |
