Back to the Future
August 27, 2007
One of the best things about blogging is taking real life situations and things you do in the real world and then conjure up a post. I try to keep all this to myself as not to scare away friends and family but it’s fun to come up with blog post ideas in the middle of eating dinner or watching a movie.
I have trained myself (maybe by accident) to always make that “real life/blog post” connection. Could it be a sickness? I guess that is debatable.
But here is a bloggy question I would like to ask my audience. Now this is something I decided I wanted to ask people while watching Back to the Future. I assume I don’t have to tell people what that movie is, but my brother in-law got us the trilogy for the family. It is a classic.. or will be a classic, depending on where you are on the space-time continuum. I used to watch those movies back when I was a kid and my kids seem to like it.
So let’s relate time travel to blogging. If you could go into the future 30 years. Now remember that blogging really hasn’t been around for more than a few years. The Internet has only been around for about a decade. So let’s take the year 2007 and go ahead into the future another 30 years to 2037. Now for entertainment purposes what do you see? Let’s assume blogging is still around and you log on to your computer or laptop, or your personal computer device… whatever you use to read the Internet. What do you think blogging will be like in the future?
Now let’s say you were young (a kid) in 2037 and were able to go back in time 30 years to the present year of 2007. What are some of the things that seem normal to us currently that you think may be outdated and would seem as “old fashion” to the time traveler?
Any ideas? Think about how things were 30 years ago and how so much has changed. What was it like in 1977? Internet wasn’t even around then. Cell phones weren’t around. So think about how much has really changed in 30 years to help you think up what it might be like 30 years from now and what types of things today may not be around… Now think in the sense of blogging.
Any ideas?
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Well, here’s a topic that a life-long science fiction reader can hardly resist. Thirty years is a long time to try to predict social trends, but I see blooging, and bloggers becoming more important as people become increasingly aware that, with a half-dozen or so corporations controlling all the traditional media outlets such as newspaper, television and radio, the media they’ve always relied is becoming more and more geared toward serving the needs of the corporations who own them instead of the people who use them. Blogs offer people a chance to place their trust in individuals that prove to be knowledgeable and competent rather than news sources that are neither. You can already see this happening in the political blogs, where writers like Glenn Greenwald, Duncan Black, and Jane Hamsher are moving up from simple bloggers to becoming respected and consulted commentators.
As for the internet, the fight is on right now for what shape that will eventually take. The corporations are looking to extend the control they have over media to include the internet because they know that, with wide-open access, the internet is now the only tool that stands in their way of a complete monopoly. An openly available, wireless based internet with high speeds could conceivably even break the cable companies control of television, and pave the way to a system open to anyone who wants to broadcast anything, making the public airwaves truly public for the first time.
Well, a guy can dream, anyway.
First off…I LOVE “Back to the Future.” It’s one of my favorite movies to fall asleep too. Speaking of which, it actually sucks to fall asleep to a DVD because you will inevitably be woken up to that annoying audio loop on the menu screen.
Okay, back from my tangent! I think blogging will grow increasingly popular with time. As Greg mentioned, politics have already started to incorporate online communities into their marketing schemes. And so it will be with major corporations. Also, as youth become more involved in hunting, they will bring a generation that never knew life without the internet. That generation will bring creativity beyond our wildest dreams…
In the future we will be blogging in ‘real time’.