|
  |
|
|
21st Century global village - the other side of the coin
I know all the arguments about technology and speed of communication, the global village was supposed to be a really good thing. After all, what could be bad about connecting up the whole of humanity? Wouldn't peace, love, understanding, happiness and little pink ponies be the inevitable result? Well no, not exactly. Most actual villages are no heaven on Earth, so no reason to think a global village would be any different. It does mean every deviant across the planet can harass your email inbox with offers of viagra, wasted pixels abound, spilling on the ground. On the other hand I can search and find a particularly nasty criminal, like the Japanese Government, and email all their staff about the sheer barbarity of firing exploding harpoons into the bodies of sentient sea mammals, letting them die in agony for an hour or two in the name of culture. Well at least it makes me feel better about the bloody whaling. Ditto Canadian seal murderers and the cretinous gun totin yanks who shoot beautiful wolves from helicopters and call it 'sport'. These are all partial rewards for having to put up with spam, although I'm getting much less now since my ISP got it's act together and installed a filter [if your ISP doesn't do this, demand why], but perhaps, for me, the most irritating result of the 21st century digital revolution is that anyone can find my business website, and then email or, worse, telephone me asking to speak to the production manager. They are usually Indian, and it happens a couple of times a week, and not always from the same company although that too happens; they then pretend they are someone else and they didn't phone you ten minutes ago! They work from lists an underling has assembled with the help of google, and a person with very little English is then chosen to telephone UK businesses and tell them his name is Sean. I used to be polite; listen to what they have to say, answer questions, before finally telling them that I had no need of their publishing services thank you as, err, that was what we offered? Did you read the website? Still some would insist in arguing about my non-desire to employ them, unable to understand why I wasn't falling over backwards at such an astonishingly affordable offer to process a hundred million pages of text into any language I chose by next Tuesday. Now I'm either very abrupt - we have no need of your services thank you - or rude - I don't respond to cold calling, go away - and if I'm in a bad mood or had a frustrating day ... Sometimes, village folk can get right up your nose [a disgusting British expression meaning completely irritate to the point of homicide]. |
http://www.oneworldnet.co.uk/Photography
| http://www.oneworldnet.co.uk/ebooks/index5.php
PLEASE VISIT THE CONTRIBUTOR'S WEBSITE
No reactions yet.
Please login or sign up to rate this intel.
Please login or sign up to add a comment.
The copyright for this content entitled "21st Century global village - the other side of the coin" has been specified by the contributor as:
All Rights Reserved
This content may not be copied, distributed or adapted by anyone under any circumstances.
|
 |
May, 2012
2008
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2009
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2010
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2011
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2012
January, February, March, April, May
|
|
Not a member yet?
Qondio is a powerful network for making it online. If you have a website to
promote, we can help.
Sign up and get in on the action.
|
|
Welcome to Qondio! Discover the awesome power this network can deliver by going to our About page. Or you could skip straight to the Sign Up form.
|
|
