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The modern things you absolutely love thread

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  1. TSDF

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    I love having access to any information my inquisitive mind could ever conjure, at the tip of my fingers, instantly.

    I love the fact that I am experiencing the fastest development of new styles of music/art that history has ever seen. I love living in a time when new aesthetics are constantly emerging while simultaneously watching old ones evolve into beautiful new territories.

    I love satellites beaming my thoughts and music in deconstructed 0s and 1s into foreign lands that I may never have the opportunity to visit in person. I love those same satellites beaming me back thoughts and ideas from people and places in distant realms that I may never have the good fortune to meet, all in real time.

    I love video phone chats and seeing the faces of the people I love as we erupt with laughter from a stupid joke.

    I love that on a daily basis, as I observe the new generations emerge underneath me, more and more people are being freed from the dogmas of ancient and hateful religions. More and more children are growing up in environments conducive to the acceptance of other cultures/sexual orientations/ideologies.

    All of these are the sole result of the burgeoning technologies (and therefore knowledge) surrounding us. I guess I love modern technology......

    Posted 4 months ago #

  2. mechapop

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    I agree about how a lot of barriers have been wiped out. You can get email from remote villages or far off lands commending you on a song or blog article, or an art piece on Deviant Art and in turn see people have this immense creative vehicle for all to see.

    Many hardliners whine about "there's too much crap, it's killing the scene, now anyone can make music". But I like that, and in fact some of my favorite bands now are unsigned acts of people making music in their bedroom with just a simple vst. Pogo and Grimes comes to mind.

    You no longer have to go to animation or film school. Or acting school. Or get signed. You can put a comedy sketch, short animation, or music video(even a still picture with a song) and get a gazillion views...or at least an amount most companies would have to pay a lot to get seen. So even something simple can go viral...even if it's stick figures.

    You can instantly share stories or get the word out current events. There's a voice for all people now. When a government or even my government claims this or that happened, and people report live on scene on twitter that actually that's not what happened...it's a big change. Wikileaks, Occupy, revolutions, etc all changed the landscape of conversation and all spawned from the internet. But even a teen in a bad part of the world can share her stories or art and have a captive worldwide audience.

    But sometimes it feels like it's TOO much. Remember when you'd save up for a movie or album or book or video game, and it'd be this big event and you'd spend half the day enraptured in that moment.

    Well now you can instantly download any book, program, software, video game, movie, song, album, magazine, etc in existence instantly for free which has it's pros and cons. It's just the issue of appreciation I wonder about. It's like a kid who is spoiled.

    But it is nice...if you always wondered what that one weird movie was you caught on tv, imdb it. That one recipe? Google it. That one old 80s cartoon? Youtube it. That one album? Discogs it. That one historical event? Wikipedia it. It's endless.
    If the new CES and Tokyo trade shows are an indication, the next few years are going to get even more insane

    I just feel people need to take a break from all the facebook smart phone texting and instant everything, and go to a park or go on a vacation away from it all. Because there could be a day when those classic cyberpunk movies like Ghost in the Shell, 1984, The Matrix and THX 1138 are no longer science fiction.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  3. xeno

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    - smartphones and tablets

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  4. SinDelleMorte

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    I like that everything is very accessible but I also fear it in the wider perspective. As I said in the other thread, using Google can replace having to actually LEARN and internalize something.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  5. Brapley

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    "I love the fact that I am experiencing the fastest development of new styles of music/art that history has ever seen."

    Is there any objective measure of this? I see people complain all the time that the development of new music styles has really stagnated compared to the '60s or '80s or whenever.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  6. Pool Waiter

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    There is a lot to love for sure.

    I love that I can get answers to questions I've always had in an instant (who is that actor, where have I seen him before? I have lemons, chicken and tomatoes, what can I make with them for dinner tonight?)

    I love that art is now up to the consumer to decide rather than labels or art galleries or TV or whatever. Your point on how anything can go viral and information cannot be controlled is dead on.

    I love GPS in my car. Can't tell you how many messes that has gotten me out of.

    I love how technology is CHEAP!! My daughter makes great movies with a Flip camera and Power Director 9. Oh if this stuff had existed when I was a kid!! Similar to this, I love that my studio is tiny because almost all of my synths are "inside" the computer (Zoolander reference if ya caught it).

    So much more...ATMs, DVR, Smartphones that let you go golfing while giving the appearance that you are still in the office, and forums like this one that allow me to share my thoughts with anyone, even strangers, instead of thinking I have isolated interests.

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  7. soillodge

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    I like how we have all these new avenues to tell other people what we like or dislike about anything under the sun. Yes, a touch of irony there.

    I like how we have taken the control factor away from the conglomerate corporations and they are struggling to keep up. Like how indie games like Angry Birds and Minecraft could explode into what they became with a moderate budget and limited promotions.

    I like digital music. There I said it. I am tired of CD's cluttering my home. Getting bent digi-paks and cracked jewelboxes. I like PDF booklets and ID tags. I LOVE being able to download just the tracks I want from an album and to have the cost be reasonable.

    I love being able to email a local shop and order a pizza. That is maginificent.

    `michael

    Posted 4 months ago #

  8. SinDelleMorte

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    My God, how could I forget email ordering pizza?? I agree, that is awesome. I also like things like ebay, Craigslist and Amazon.com and how you can get something that is still in good condition without paying a ridiculous price for it, or find something that you could not find anywhere else. Amazon is especially wonderful for used books.

    I like that because of the internet, artists don't really need a record label or "traditional" radio play anymore to get fans, to sell albums and to generally make an impact. You can do all that yourself if you are willing to work at it and still retain ownership and creative control. That is a beautiful thing.

    Oh, and digital cameras. I was a huge fan of Polaroids back in the day (who wasn't?) and the digital camera is basically a MUCH better-quality version of the same thing.

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  9. SVII-5AM

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    I like that is still has an "off" switch

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  10. Randy Roze

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    I definitely like how everything is accessible and that you don't necessarily have to be "privileged" to get your own. I think the leveling of "the playing field" is a very good thing. Yeah its tough to wade through all the garbage to find some good stuff, but I find that is the way with many things, and could be a broad or general way to go about finding anything good. However, no one moves a finger in my country, unless it is for money, and they are devising new ways to make content on the internet pay per view, with the Stop Online Piracy Act. Say goodbye to YouTube.
    I think it would be really cool if we could get the information to the people who need it, to pull them out of poverty and disease, without having to make a profit, or specifically for monetary gain, but these tools used to oppress have been around much longer than little me, and I'm not so optimistic about the future.
    I also like free online documentary films, and software sequencers.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  11. TSDF

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    Brapley:

    In my experience almost all new genres of art/music are mergers of two (or more) already existing styles. With the disintigration of world boundaries via the internet musicians and artists are being exposed to a higher degree of variance in what they consume as appreciators of art. Geographic locale and the monopolization of the entertainment industry played such a large role in what you were exposed to as an artist before the internet. This evolution, in turn leads to these artisans creating a wider range of sounds and styles, because they have a larger pool of inspiration to draw upon. One only needs to look at electronic music alone to see the explosion in experimentation of sounds. IDM, breakcore, dubstep, psytrance, terrorbanana!, psybient, glitch hop, witch house....its almost mind numbing the subdivision and reorganization of electronic music into new styles. You can see the same divisions and re-organizations taking place in classical music, jazz, etc. though. Just wanted to address that.

    Now more positive posts, please! :)

    Posted 4 months ago #

  12. Opir

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    Thanks for the positive post. To be amazed on a daily basis, I'd suggest adding the following to your favorite RSS reader:

    http://singularityhub.com/
    http://www.kurzweilai.net/
    http://nextbigfuture.com/

    Just a few recent headlines:

    Senstore Wants To Make A Tricorder That Monitors The Entire Body
    MRI Powered Pill-Sized Robot Uses Tail To Swim Through Your Intestines
    Synthetic windpipe is used to replace cancerous one
    Spray-on Skin Is a Reality

    I love that we're living in an age where the time between something being Sci-Fi and reality can now often be measured in years or months.

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  13. bubba

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    The fact that social media has finally brought out the inner celebrity in people and just how insipidly pitiful their 'content' is.

    Watching idiots willingly give away personal information to dogshit minders like facebook. You aren't interesting but I love to watch your commonality all blend into a maelstrom of absolute mediocrity.

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  14. TSDF

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    I love the fact that Germany is showing the rest of the world what energy revolutions look like. About 30% of the energy produced in that country right now is created by privately owned solar cells, wind turbines, etc. Taking energy production away from corporations oil producing countries who rig the balance of supply and demand is about one of the most significant and beautiful things taking place in the world right now. It excites me that by the time I die, all of our nations may be "off the grid".

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  15. metaball

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    music gear. you can find just about anything these days. & usually in a cheap plugin version, a behringer knockoff, vintage stuff on ebay, & remakes by boutique gear manufacturers who have improved on the original design.

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  16. peptastic

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    1]I love how more bands are able to put their stuff up for the world without depending on big labels.
    2]I love how we can look up the news online and don't need to use corrupt media [ie Rupert Mudoch/Ted Turner] to find out about political candidates.
    3]TV box sets.
    4] Youtube, pandora, spotify, last.fm etc.
    5]The imdb.com. I know it's been out a long time now but anytime my internet is down and I need to look up where I've seen an actor before I realise how much I depend on it.

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    SinDelleMorte

    Re- lots of people have written books that are as misinformed or slanted toward one view before the internet. Our history teachers leave out what they want or are told to.
    You can be sure my history teacher left out the Japanese interment camps in the USA during WW2.

    kids cramming for tests speed reed and thus don't always retain the information anyway.
    It depends on if that school library even has that book.
    My teachers in grade school and high school made it mandatory we had to use school books in the library so they could check our sources.
    In college we weren't allowed to use wikipedia as a source. But as wikipedia includes sources kids usually got them off wikipedia that way.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  17. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

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    "You can be sure my history teacher left out the Japanese; German, Italian interment camps in the USA during WW2."

    Corrected :)

    "I love the fact that Germany is showing the rest of the world what energy revolutions look like. About 30% of the energy produced in that country right now is created by privately owned solar cells, wind turbines, etc."

    Not true, I am German just for info.... we are not that far.

    Oh, I like Internet, but this does not count as modern, does it ?

    Otherwise not much.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  18. mechapop

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    This pretty much explains why there's a side of me that loves the modern period...as no longer do you have to wish to be on a label or any of the political crap of before. No longer do you have to try and mimic or ape a tired genre and worry about not finding an audience

    [+] Embed the videoGet the Video Plugin

    Posted 3 months ago #

  19. mechapop

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    "“Grimes, aka 23-year-old musician Claire Boucher, talks of her music as “post-internet… The music of my childhood was really diverse because I had access to everything, so the music I make is sort of schizophrenic. Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.” Digital technology makes the artistic self at once hollow (buffeted by torrential, every-which-way flows of influence) and omnipotent (capable of molding sound and melding styles at will). Having access to so many resources and being able to manipulate them so extensively lends itself to a certain grandiosity. Grimes talks of being a maker of worlds and envisions her discography unfolding with Tolkien-esque endlessness: “I want to make a tome— access every genre of music, and also create new genres with them. I want to have, like, 30 albums.” Her forthcoming LP is titled Visions and apparently draws on everything from Enya to Aphex Twin, New Jack Swing to New Age, K-pop to glitch. This makes her an exemplary exponent of the new post-everything: a genre that refuses to make up its mind what it is or what it’s for, shifty and evasive, slithering hither and thither across the entire past and the whole wide world of music.”
    http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8721-maximal-nation/

    Love that, 'post internet'. Make up your own blended genres, or no genres.
    Dont sound like The Killers, Tiesto, NIN or Combichrist. Just experiment and create stuff people arent use to hearing. This is what I like about the modern period.
    Freedom to do anything music/art wise and have an instant audience.

    Posted 3 months ago #

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