Fifty million voters will troop the polls this year, with about thirty five million belonging to the 18-35 age group. These group of Filipinos are very knowledgeable of what is happening in their spheres of interests. They are enlightened. Technology has allowed this to happen. What would modernize our democracy is not the laws that our stupid lawmakers make in the halls of Congress (In a normal situation, this should be the case. Laws are supposed to be instruments of change, not instruments of legal oppression by the elite), but the knowledge that technologies present to people.
Fact is, thanks to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, technologies have brought us tightly closer and freer still than before. This is the third phase of world-wide enlightenment, when knowledge has now become widespread and being used to improve lives and change futures.
Literally, what the Ancients describe back then, as all human knowledge the size of our thumb, we have discovered that, indeed, all knowledge acquired during one's life time is literally, the size of one's thumb. Hence, the possibility of creating a totally democratic society exist and is not as costly as what we previously think it is.
The power to change things definitely lie in every Citizen. A fully Enlightened Citizen is the equivalent of a battalion of soldiers. The Establishment is being challenged almost every single day. The end of the Establishment is near. The Light is slowly escaping its prison of darkness.
The Neo Citizen has his duty---to spread the Light of Enlightenment and mobilise other citizens to action. Change is inevitable. The good life is at hand. All the Citizen needs is to eradicate the vestiges of the Old Order and allow the birthing of the New One. There is no stopping this.
The Neo Citizen therefore, must step up his struggle so that Open Societies will bloom like Lotuses throughout the human landscape.
Showing posts with label steve jobs. Show all posts
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Every single one has a Steve Jobs in him
Yesterday, it seemed that the world just suddenly stopped. When I learned that Steve Jobs died, it felt that the world came to a halt. Everybody seemed to be silently grieving as if some big thing just disappeared from their very lives.
Steve Jobs represented my generation. I grew up knowing that apples and mice are one and the same thing, and apps are improvements rather than software. Who thought that technology is personal? The "i" in every Apple device means you're allowing yourself to be part of change, of technology, something which Sony did not even think or Samsung. They produce things, these giants. For the people behind Apple, technology is creation, technology makes life simple.
That's what many people like about Steve Jobs. He brought technology and the human spirit together. Every Apple device, every app created, are celebrations of life. They are expressions of human yearning to achieve perfection in simple things.
Look, the ipod is not new. It's just an MP3 player. But Steve Jobs made it unique. It's your player, not somebody's. And it does not merely play you music--that music inside every ipod represents something in you. That is you, actually.
That Ipad you bring along, that made life even more simple. The minute you make someone's life simple, you bring about change, rapid changes, that benefit not just the individual, but the world around him.
Every Apple device thus became instruments of change. Change, however, depends on how Apple influences the life of that user.
For a businessman, Apple changed his perspective on how to do business. For a student, more knowledge in his fingertips. For an ordinary fellow, more power to do things, and change things.
Life improved because of Steve Jobs. Jobs unleashed the forces of creativity that every single one of us realized the limits of one's creativity depends only on one's courage to explore. There is no limit to what one can do. Possibilities became endless, as dreams once thought impossible in the field of technology became as real as a microwave oven.
Apple is the arc that connected the end dots of a flat world. That arc is likened to a rainbow that unleashed man's creative soul.
Like how John Lennon left a great void in 1979, Steve Jobs did his in 2011. The Iphone S4 became the last of Steve Jobs creation. How Apple can move past Job's influence is a great hurdle.
Steve Jobs represented my generation. I grew up knowing that apples and mice are one and the same thing, and apps are improvements rather than software. Who thought that technology is personal? The "i" in every Apple device means you're allowing yourself to be part of change, of technology, something which Sony did not even think or Samsung. They produce things, these giants. For the people behind Apple, technology is creation, technology makes life simple.
That's what many people like about Steve Jobs. He brought technology and the human spirit together. Every Apple device, every app created, are celebrations of life. They are expressions of human yearning to achieve perfection in simple things.
Look, the ipod is not new. It's just an MP3 player. But Steve Jobs made it unique. It's your player, not somebody's. And it does not merely play you music--that music inside every ipod represents something in you. That is you, actually.
That Ipad you bring along, that made life even more simple. The minute you make someone's life simple, you bring about change, rapid changes, that benefit not just the individual, but the world around him.
Every Apple device thus became instruments of change. Change, however, depends on how Apple influences the life of that user.
For a businessman, Apple changed his perspective on how to do business. For a student, more knowledge in his fingertips. For an ordinary fellow, more power to do things, and change things.
Life improved because of Steve Jobs. Jobs unleashed the forces of creativity that every single one of us realized the limits of one's creativity depends only on one's courage to explore. There is no limit to what one can do. Possibilities became endless, as dreams once thought impossible in the field of technology became as real as a microwave oven.
Apple is the arc that connected the end dots of a flat world. That arc is likened to a rainbow that unleashed man's creative soul.
Like how John Lennon left a great void in 1979, Steve Jobs did his in 2011. The Iphone S4 became the last of Steve Jobs creation. How Apple can move past Job's influence is a great hurdle.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs--a good friend of humanity
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| Goodbye my friend. You left a great void in my life |
He shared his soul to almost everybody. What is good about my friend is, he made millions happy.
Happy that someone can actually speak with another in real time, see their loved ones as if they're near.
He made communications 5 inches closer. People got closer because of him. And he realized what philosophers of old only dreamed of---he built a global community, united in complexity.
Happy that life is simplier today than twenty years ago. Happy that the complications of life just suddenly faded away because of him.
Like him, I am an orphan. He was left to a foster home while I was left to my grandparents. Yet, he changed so many lives that he got an extended family.
Like him, I want to change the world. Unlike him, he did it with such flair that people accepted revolutionary changes like how they eat pancakes in the morning.
The world turned flat with him. He simplified beauty and beauty almost seemlessly blended with nature. He is, beauty, in human form.
The human form also changed with him. He helped create the new homo sapiens, and proved that humans are unique species, thinking, creating, innovating, making life happy.
Steve Jobs, my friend, will be missed. He logged on in 1955 and logged out just now. But, for me and for the rest of humanity, Steve Jobs will never be deleted. Never. His soul remains forever online.
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