The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

I’ve been AWOL now nearly a week, pretty much Laying Low, avoiding phones, credit cards and car rentals. Admittedly, it’s a primitive existence, fraught with danger, close to the ground and devoid of digital toys and devices. Actually it feels a lot like those early pioneer days on the South End when we were poor, TV-less and didn’t own a credit card. Of course, computers hadn’t taken over the world yet. Microsoft and Apple were just learning to crawl. And we weren’t occupied 24/7 keeping up with Yahoo news and social media and e-mails and twitter feeds and flash sales and text messages and cellphone calls and Netflix updates and internet shopping and all the rest of that instant connectedness to our fellow ants we can no longer imagine living without.

So far I’m surviving okay. Life does go on without Facebook updates. Admittedly it’s a lonelier existence not keeping abreast of ‘friends’ shopping adventures and movie ‘likes’, but I’m managing to fill the void. Give me another week and I’ll found a new religion, one not predicated on base 10, bits and bytes, possibly one that deposes the CyberGod of the 21st century, a religion that gives humankind dominion over computers.

Okay, I’m only joshing. TV has won. Smartphones rule. We will soon, very soon, become part cyber ourselves. We’ll surgically implant new and improved body parts. We’ll convince ourselves we’re in control. But … this is delusional. Welcome to the Collective, Friend! Embrace the Borg Hive. We won’t very much notice and the transformation will be painless and quick. Half automaton, half human? I don’t think so, not for very long. Get the Google glasses, buy an implant and 500 apps. Opt for bio-appendages, improved and virtually indestructible. And eventually require all citizens to upgrade their neuro-chips. Smart? Way smart. Pain free? Of course. Disease immune? You betcha! Human? Oh, right. Me paranoid? Wait a few years….

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