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 291: A Separate Peace [59:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you in this hour by the ant-iPhone, the Blackholeberry, and any other product that stymies the constant flow of infotraction. What is infotraction? It’s the steady encroachment of technology on our lives, the ever present march of emails and faxes and phone calls and tweets and status updates and messages and chat prompts and pop ups and ringing and doling and blinking and wifi-ing and responding that now make up so very much of an average person’s day.

Life is supposed to be enhanced by technology, made easier, made tolerable – Where we once looked to fire to chase away the darkness, we now sit, bathed in the glow of a wall of LCD, plasma, and backlit nonsense, awash in the noise of the masses. Your children are texting you while you drive your car down the highway, trying to find the nearest Popeye’s on your GPS and fiddling with your satellite radio receiver in an effort to turn down the sound so you can better hear the voice prompts coming from the car’s computer indicating the proximity of an object in the road, but your wife is calling on the OnStar and you might as well pick it up because she just changed the online order she placed for you to pick up and you will need to clear out some space to pick up your kid from the Tweetup on the way back from 21st Century Digital Boy Scouts…

Jesus the F Christ, people. We need some quiet time. Some solitude. Some place where we can go and just decompress, and we are not talking about the bathroom. Well, I do, but only for a bit.

Where do you unplug? Where do you unbluetooth, un3g, unhook and just shut her down for the day? The Beach? Not anymore. The pool? Why, look at these wifi speakers and pool safe cell! It’s endless, invasive, and will be the downfall of our species.

I read a story by Mr. Bradbury (Ray, we called him, back then), concerning a subject who had had enough of the ever-advancing noise of technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderer – Warning, plot thief, just go buy Golden Apples of the Sun and read it.

See what he did there? How much longer til we are drowning in the sound, the sensation? Imagine when advertisers gain the right to announce sales directly to you via your car?

“This stretch of Highway 41 brought to you by Crest! Your teeth are hideous, and women will not kiss you without some Crest!”

Think I am kidding?
The episode isn’t preachy, it’s fun, and I review a self-help book a good friend introduced me to, by the name of Choice Theory. We will dig a bit deeper into the surface of this whole concept in later episodes, so feel free to acquaint yourself with some of the basic ideas in this hour. It’s not been life-altering, just…. horrendously informative.

Thanks, as always, for listening!