Technological life

[deathboy]

I love being alive now.

I believe people born around the late seventies are living in a golden age.

We're seeing, quite literally, the *dream* technology... the most strange dreams of our youth and of fiction *actually happening*.

I know slightly younger people who still revel in their tech, but lack the feeling of Magic-Made-Real that I feel when I can buy a fucking full-on X86 PC with 4mb RAM on a FUCKING WATCH for a couple of hundred quid.

OK, so I lost my OnHand PC "breakdancing" in a club in Leamington Spa.

I think that in some twisted sense, that proves my point.

At the moment, I need an auto-tune to fix up a vocal that's almost there, but not quite.

I know Antares Autotune is quite good.

Fire up KazaaLite.

Search for Antares.

Bingo.

It's finished downloaded in the time it's taken to write this post.

Oh, shit, did I just commit software piracy?

Shit.

I'd best go "punish" myself...

Comments

[cyberpunkgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'd best go "punish" myself...

hehe - sorry, but at this time in the morning that statement seems amusing... ;)

I still face a daily battle with technology... being that annoying kind of person that *wantds* to understand but dfinds it horrendously frustrating... wrong brain syndrome I reckon...

[stevek.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was browsing through alltheweb.com (http://www.alltheweb.com) and searched for Deathboy... lo and behold a few tracks were listed, which is more than can be said for several other bands I was searching for.

[denari.livejournal.com]

The other thing is that kids nowdays don't appreciate how amazing mobile phones are. Can you remember trying to meet up with someone in town? You had to wait on a street corner and hope they turn up...

[preachermuaddib.livejournal.com]

Dude,have u sorted out whitby?

[interlock-music.livejournal.com]

Melodyne... yep... melodyne.

Auto tune is good, but melodyne... Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, frickin' cheesin' it, sir.

J

I would say that...

[lazrus-armagedn.livejournal.com]

...actually it is those of born in the '60s who are best off.

We are old enough to have seen the days when even colour TV was a novely...there were only three channels and BBC2 was off from 10:00 till 16:00

We saw the first calculators, digital watches, video recorders, cassette players, CDs, Walkmen...

You name it, we saw it's advent


At the same time, we're young enough for the oldest of us to have been twenty in 1980.


So we have a unique perspective: old enough to have seen it all happen for the first time and been amazed and thrilled at the pace of change...yet young enough to have taken it in our stride and understood</> it

For us, this is a golden age in a way that anyone born beyond '75 really cannot imagine ... because they have no perspective ... ... ... They were born into a world of rapid technological change and development...and, as a result, know no different