Nothing Happens At Ten 2010

Twitter Revolution

I was reading online recently an article that said that email is dead. It is too slow. People now use twitter for instant connectivity. Everyone is instantly tied together via their miniaturized computing devices regardless of their location in the physical world.

So these Twits or Tweets or whatever they call themselves sit on the trains and buses (and in their cars, unfortunately) silently tweeting away, trying to keep up with all the other frenetic people tied into the same electronic web.

But here is the real power of the technology. The key is in the word "silently". Whereas these same Twits.... er Tweets.... used to yammer on and on with their cell phones, disturbing the entire landscape, they now sit in a catatonic stare, their overdeveloped thumbs flying. The click click click of the chicklet keyboards can barely be heard over the soft rumble of the iPod headphones sitting next to you.

The silence is marvelous.

Yay.