I just ran into this video on digg and the only real thought running through my mind while watching this was "uggggggggggggggh". I don't really know what that means. Apparently some educated people are calling this the information age, and I guess I can see why. Us monkeys have inhabited this world for a while now. From our birthplace in Africa (or whatever) we expanded out to every inhabitable peace of land on this planet and conquered every other creature on this earth. Now, overcoming this distance barrier through technology, nations from every corner of this planet are converging together. Our world has expanded so much within the past generation. There's some quote out there that says every single person will have 15 minutes of fame or something, but I disagree. Thinking relative to the individual mind is becoming outdated. The big picture is that the cumulative whole of every single person on earth is becoming an entity in and of itself.

My phone is a handy gadget that keeps me connected. Err, excuse me. By phone I meant iPhone. You see, my "phone" is much greater than your phone because not only can I use it to call people, I can use it for web browsing, e-mail, text messaging, task manager, and a virtual shotgun. I need to stay connected to get stuff done. I need to get stuff done because....ugggggggggggggggh. Fuck. I don't really know what that means. Anyways, my iPhone serves a greater purpose than my own. Even a greater purpose than the people on my contact list. We are driven to cast ropes across to one another. We are driven to cast them as far off as we can. Once that connection is made, we reinforce it and we secure it. While all of this is happening, we are all constantly moving in varying directions. Yet because we are now connected to one another, when one individual moves, so do the people connected to that individual. Thus gradually we begin to move more in unison as our ropes gain depth and breath. This has been going on since the beginning of time. Communities are formed through communication, the obvious difference is that now I can communicate with someone at the other side of the world almost instantaneously with one phone call. It's the basics of teamwork but on such a humongous scale that the implications are irrelevant and indistinguishable to our every day lives.