Wow

Finally finished watching The Social Network and am still reeling from wonder at the superlative intellect of the guy - and the sheer madness of what he did.

Amazing.  And so I have had an evening of social networking - Facebook, twitter, now blogging. I have surfed and browsed and found some really cool stuff. I had my smile traced by my web cam and it will go down the line to some guy (or girl) at MIT to be analysed. The result of the smile test- I smile apparently.

I gave my husband an iPad (old one) for his birthday and he's already addicted. All night the two of us have been on our respective machines doing whatever.

This is becoming the world we live in - not the real world. What will happen and where will it all end?  I'm having a Matrix moment....

What can the next 'big thing' possibly be? Connected tv is supposed to be - but that's been coming for years so it's not exactly a new thought.

When I spoke to some students the other day, I joked that the next big thing was reality - really meeting people, really talking to people and really living.

Is that a possibility or just a pipe dream?

BTW why is it that people who tweet and blog in particular have to describe themselves as something really pretentious? Usually involving words like zeitgeist - what's that all about? Pretentious? Moi? Mais non!