We are gurus, in a sense, the wizards that have all the answers. We are the ones who stay dry in a tidal wave of new products, concepts, software, and hardware, few of which are designed on the philosophy of de jure standards, and the majority of which ship either incomplete, broken, poorly documented, or built with the idea of grabbing as much market share as quickly as possible in order to become the new must have product. At moments like that I feel like an artist and a guru at the same time. That area of soul is very meaningful to me. The point is that none of this technology is going to solve our problems for us in and of itself.
People make the machines, people cause the dilemmas.
It is also up to individuals to figure out a way to use the technology to solve the conundrums, not just to entertain and enslave the masses in some sort of multimedia opium den owned by Disney, Paramount, and Amblin Pictures. When I reach the end of a long day of swimming up to my neck in technology, I have to review the moments when I made contact with a person as a person, rather than as an object. That s where the bliss is for me, and where I uncover the spirit of these interesting times.