Comments on: It’s Steve Jobs’ World and We Just Live in It http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2008/07/13/digital-lifestyle/ Citizen Economists is an online economics magazine written by citizen journalists. These ordinary citizens provide reports and commentary on the current events affecting the economics of the fields they work in. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:44:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike Chase http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2008/07/13/digital-lifestyle/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Mike Chase Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:25:12 +0000 http://www.amateureconomists.com/blogs/?p=56#comment-123 Dear Readers, I have no desire to return to the "good old days". I live near a town where there is a Roman square more than 1700 years old that is still in daily use. The streets are still the same stone laid down almost two millennia ago. It is wonderful to walk about and see where we came from. Nostalgia is sweet in most cases, but I like my digital camera, iPhoto and Photoshop much better than my old Polaroid, and far better than the Leica and the darkroom and enlarger of my youth. Bikram, don't let nostalgia make you unhappy. Life is a one way street. There is no way to change or return to the way things were--even an instant ago. Even for an old man like me there is excitement every day in seeing what wonderful new thing will happen. A museum is a wonderful thing to visit, and learn. Our home, our life, our world are not static displays but elements of the present and portals to the future. Accept and enjoy! There is little question in my mind that the current economic will be more serious and more prolonged that the current expectation of most "talking heads" on television. There is also the knowledge that we will survive it and the world will change, probably for the better. It will be a painful process, but you and the world will survive. Digitation of the world will be part of the recovery process just as the auto was part of the salvation of the twentieth century. Mike Dear Readers,

I have no desire to return to the “good old days”. I live near a town where there is a Roman square more than 1700 years old that is still in daily use. The streets are still the same stone laid down almost two millennia ago. It is wonderful to walk about and see where we came from. Nostalgia is sweet in most cases, but I like my digital camera, iPhoto and Photoshop much better than my old Polaroid, and far better than the Leica and the darkroom and enlarger of my youth.

Bikram, don’t let nostalgia make you unhappy. Life is a one way street. There is no way to change or return to the way things were–even an instant ago. Even for an old man like me there is excitement every day in seeing what wonderful new thing will happen. A museum is a wonderful thing to visit, and learn. Our home, our life, our world are not static displays but elements of the present and portals to the future. Accept and enjoy!

There is little question in my mind that the current economic will be more serious and more prolonged that the current expectation of most “talking heads” on television. There is also the knowledge that we will survive it and the world will change, probably for the better. It will be a painful process, but you and the world will survive. Digitation of the world will be part of the recovery process just as the auto was part of the salvation of the twentieth century.

Mike

]]> By: Bikram Barua http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2008/07/13/digital-lifestyle/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Bikram Barua Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:16:25 +0000 http://www.amateureconomists.com/blogs/?p=56#comment-118 There is a sense of anxiety and ominous uncertainty in what you write , behind which looms that sentimental beast - nostalgia . I live with the same unhappiness of everyday life . Maybe , the present economic crisis would lead to a rupture with the way we live ; painful it will be . There is a sense of anxiety and ominous uncertainty in what you write , behind which looms that sentimental beast – nostalgia . I live with the same unhappiness of everyday life .
Maybe , the present economic crisis would lead to a rupture with the way we live ; painful it will be .

]]> By: Anittah Patrick http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2008/07/13/digital-lifestyle/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Anittah Patrick Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:50:41 +0000 http://www.amateureconomists.com/blogs/?p=56#comment-109 If you haven't already, check out The Cybercities Reader. It's a great exploration of the impact of technology on our urban spaces. Concurrently with reading that I'm also reading The Fate Of Place so the questions you pose in your last paragraph are very much top-of-mind for me as of late. Do you miss your croissant and coffee in the a.m.? Then turn off the laptop and go back to a paper subscription before it's too late! Someday, perhaps we'll have nostalgia for newspapers the way folks already miss Polaroids. If you haven’t already, check out The Cybercities Reader. It’s a great exploration of the impact of technology on our urban spaces. Concurrently with reading that I’m also reading The Fate Of Place so the questions you pose in your last paragraph are very much top-of-mind for me as of late.

Do you miss your croissant and coffee in the a.m.? Then turn off the laptop and go back to a paper subscription before it’s too late! Someday, perhaps we’ll have nostalgia for newspapers the way folks already miss Polaroids.

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