Remember When...

…remember when talk lasso’d around being intolerant to change? Well, there’s a limerick about change. Like the OG's (objective geniuses) used to tell me, ‘the older we get, the more things stay the same.’ Yeah, music and styles and entertainment fluctuates, but until something like ‘lasting world-wide peace’ or maybe the answer to no more illnesses is solved, change registers as more modish than compulsory. Interestingly enough albeit, and this is peculiar, but because change = disruption most aren’t wholly on board with change in the first place.

For instance, I remember old black and white western films on TV. Almost everyone I knew rooted for the cowboys, not knowing the films were based on real wars fought between natives (of the land) and new settlers (arriving to the territory).

According to some story-lines, 'natives were initially amused by the new settlers.' "Sure, we'll take your two canteens of liquor and sack of gold coins in exchange for setting up camp here." Some thought it absurd that land, like air and water, could be owned by anyone but the heavens and gods.

But times changed. Eventually it was proven that even natural resources could be bought, sold and owned… similar to watching the (so-called) inconveniences of an analog lifestyle move to a virtual existence. Prior to the transition I remember wondering when we might be able to see the face of the person we were talking to through a phone. In the 70's this was like 'Jetson' type thinking. Thoughts like this branded the thinker to spacey (ahead of 'our/your' time) real estates… like the time I told a neighbor "one day we would have to pay to see TV" and she told me, "that would never happen!"

Sure enough...a short decade later we were not only seeing people in real time through phones, but we currently pay to see TV. And the business debates too. Though I had no opinion, it was interesting listening to the theories, guessing which consumers would 'mostly' be using 'the internet - worldwide'. Marketers believed B2B, opposed to (let's say) B2C, would rule this space. ‘People just seemed too connected to their shopping malls and physical relationships to trade it for intangible interactions'. Again, I had no opinion but was humored by early versions of online dating and its founding consumers.  

In short, ways of amusing and entertaining ourselves continues to...umm... change, but in terms of making a real difference… real change… well let me be first to admit, while technologies like word processors and later HP desktops meant the world to writers who used to pen full handwritten manuscripts, I’m thinking in the realms of technologies the world can celebrate... together. Now individuals hooked on this ride... well those are true change agents.

Just finished reading 'The NEW Immigrants' by Anne Snowden Crossman (Thoughts here).

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