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You Are In The Matrix
How your way of thinking is influenced by Technology
To say that “life imitates art” is no longer a cute cliché’. Many young people grew up to become astronauts because they watched Star Trek on their thirteen-inch black and white television.
How many philosophers began their radical ways of thinking watching “the Twilight Zone”, how many Animal Linguists had their passions ignited by the Planet of the Apes movies, how many IT experts have watched the Matrix Trilogy over fifty times?
Everything about the world you live in is being affected and influenced by technology.
Right now, as I write this story am sitting in a hut on the edge of the Philippine Jungles of East Samar. The locals still climb their own coconut trees and go out fishing in the morning with hand-carved spears. The primary mode of transportation is water buffalo or a Pad, not an iPad, a Pad, which is a combination pedicab-tricycle. Still, even here almost everyone has a cell phone and knows where to find an internet hotspot, so they can listen to K-Pop.
If you are a business person and have not yet begun the journey of integrating technology in…
