If you still think that the world has not been dramatically shifted with the emergence of Social Media, Web-enabled phones, and Time-shifted television: On my ride home this evening, while stopped at a light I did what I always do: looked at Twitter (again, I was stopped – I put the phone away in a little compartment when I’m actually moving).
Saw a tweet from someone that I follow who said that someone they follow was going to be on CBS World News tonight for something they were doing. I didn’t have time to click through to the site, as the light changed.
Clicking on my bluetooth (the phone had been put away at this point) I called my wife and asked her to DVR the news for me. (I actually used the word ‘tape’ which just shows how old I am).
She did, and when I got home, I fast forwarded through the program, but did not see anything resembling the topic. But I was able to go to the CBS News Web site, where I noticed that I could watch the entire 60 Minutes episode that I had missed last night – gotta remember that.
Still couldn’t find the story. Got back on Twitter, and searched for the main term in the post, and found a slew of tweets about the fact that the story had not been run. Found the Website via one of the tweets, and found out what the fuss was about.
Think about that – saw it on my phone – at a click of a button called my wife – at a click of a couple of buttons she ‘taped’ the show – and then a couple of mouse clicks later found the main content that the segment was about. Try that 5 years ago. That quickly. and 5 years from now, this will be an anachronistic story of the olden days.
The world, along with our TV viewing habits, has timeshifted.
BTW, the story was about Lemonade, a movie of people who got creative with their own lives after being laid off. A very cool project.
Oh, and up next: the story of my 10 year old son, and how he created his own blog, chose and installed a theme, added widgets, and is now learning CSS to modify the design. We have not seen anything yet. Give it 10 years. (see my earlier post about how different his world will be).
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Spot on Murray. The great inventions of our time have been those that help us transcend time and space. (pony express, telegraph, automobile, airplane) And now the Internet and subsequently internet enabled mobile phones.
Timeshifting.