iLife

Upload. Download. RAM. iPad. Website. Function. Apple. iPhone. iTouch. Twitter. Facebook. TXT. 4 U…

Yes, to a modern-age individual these are simply a matter of daily-usage vocabulary. When you mention a word ‘mouse’ to a 6 year old…chances are your response will deal with a combination of plastic and metal, that guides your helpless hands across the monitor screen. If you mention the word ‘program’ to a 20-something…chances are you will get a reply relevant to the combination of computerized language that executes your wishes and desires behind the scenes. We are living in the age of technologically savvy infants and technologically-challenged geriatric layer of the society. Neither is guilty as charged and both are guilty of their own innocence.

What has become the norm in our world was simply a word of mouth only 100 years ago. Your pictures did not appear in seconds, your thoughts did not amount to anything more then a short-written letter that would take weeks to reach its destination. Your entertainment was confined to free-thought, pure art and fantastical images of what’s to come in years ahead. No one had a slightest inclination to burrow inside a box, with electronic entanglement of million wires and rays, beaming signals, rather then smiles across the airwaves. But, that’s our reality. We live in a world that has the heartbeat of a machine and the logic of a human.

Contradiction in terms comes to mind. When the human heart fails to perform, human logic takes over and initiates survival instinct. When machine fails, the logic is not affected, as it is a separate entity. It simply remains in limbo, encompasses by a thread of faint memory of its canvass.

The human logic, the weakest link in our survival, which has never been used to its full potential, and yet remains to be the culprit of many wars, confrontations, gross mistakes. We deem for things to be logical and thus apply our perverted line of thoughts to the outside world. Result: a grotesque rebuttal from those that are most naïve in their logic, aka the previous generation.

When you have put the day behind you and have a few minutes to catch up on what’s going on in this world, the choices are abound. There is Facebook, there is Twitter, and then there is the good ol’ fashioned telephone… Knowing the fast-paced life order, majority of people would rather not have contact at all, then use a phone to catch up with their friends. Foe or friend, regardless of the nature of the relationship, the electronic form of communication has become the norm. What used to be the word of mouth, is now the sight of eye and the sound of ear. We don’t have the limitations of exposure that was so heavily present years ago. Now, the borders are gone, the limitations are vague at best and the lives of others – in plain sight.

This begs the question: when does your personal life end and the public life begins? Do we now have public spectrum of data that’s as much of a public property as let’s say a celebrity image taken by paparazzi? What defines privacy at this point?

Answer: what you want it to be. In the age of electronic diarrhea, the extent to which you have the ability to expose your life is endless (if not, over-the-top). But, it is up to you on how you want to handle it. To simply put it: you define the borders in the electronic park and only you. Welcome to the highway of iLife.