Hi all...
I know I have been silent of late and I apologize for that ....
I follow a lot of author blogs and the one by Jay Lake is the one I have to say that has touched me the most... he is one of the most prolific authors in spec fiction these days and is totally open on his blog about his life and his troubles....
this morning I read a post about one of the people he turned me onto internet wise and the fact that this person recently passed away from an unexpected coronary event ... an I was terribly saddened by this.... and it makes me wonder at the magical effect of the technology of the day .... I have been touched emotionally by events in the lives of people I follow because of authors I follow and will never meet in person...
Some geeks like me morn the fact that the future we live in is mundane and lacking flying cars and personal jetpacks and colonies on the moon and mars but the reality we inhabit is magical in ways past authors did not see...
today I was moved to tears by the passing of someone I'll never know but in a way knew through electronic media..... namely twitter and blogs...
its really odd the future we live in and poo poo on a regular basis....
comedian Louis C.K. did a bit on this in one of his shows about the iPhone and smart devices and how people somethins think the tech is so slow and dumb but really its a kind of magic that we live with all the time.....
thinking back to when I was a kid the TV and the phone were magic in ways I never apperciated as a teen and well
I get now to miss someone I'll never get to meet but he has touched my life in a special way.... who says we don't live in a time of magic...
G.
