Short. But sweet. Digital Age lasted a few decades its era interrupted. Its arrival announced every morning by the alarm clock. The digital alarm was first on the scene - how apropos. Everything analog was destined to be replaced, and was. Right down to the analog automobile digital technology completely disrupted every electronic component then ate the rest of the industry’s lunch. By the time Tesla Motors Inc. released its first electric car people were madly collecting mechanical watches. When Tesla Motors went into production digital had so thoroughly consumed the automaker that it had dropped “motors” from its name. Tesla is all digital, the pinnacle technology innovator and has disrupted analog automotive to own the lion share of the electric car market.
Pause. SARS CoV-2. The whole world hit COVID. Deaths exceed 3 million worldwide, a million in USA. Economic activity stopped except essentials. Even AGW greenhouse warming stopped. Paris accord target not only came into focus but actually within reach. Humanity sees that they hath wrought upon the earth - destruction.
Nobody wants to go back to work, commute, waste CO2 on a lifestyle killing them, the oceans and all the creatures that live within. The car? Why contribute to global warming owning a part of the problem? More than anything COVID has elevated the millennials and millennial mindset to the fore.
Grateful to have Internet, computers and cellphones; millennials are kindly thanking Baby Boomers as the door closes behind them. Gen-X are ascendent but even they recognize Moore’s Law no longer keeps Intel Inside viable. As we drive into Future with our electric cars the digital age is in the rear view mirror.
Mask on! We mumble through our COVID PPE in public, what little of it we venture into. Little of it is recognizable. Restaurants closed, gone out of business or a promising to open sign in the window. Bars closed - off limits and failing as establishments with 100 yr. history can’t last forever. Social fabric in taters even society is unraveling.
Twenty nine shooting scenes in the USA over the past five years killed four or more. BUT now? April 2021 there have been 22 shootings alone and the month isn’t over yet! April 2021 marks the conviction of a Minnesota police officer killing a black man in public. The last part being his comeuppance as bystander video counteracted official Minneapolis Police version of events. The reverberations down through law enforcement will be felt. Minnesota’s disgusting policing should disband entirely and start over.
Start over? That’s exactly where we are - all of us! Gov’t, business, education and individuals have been brought to breaking. This is our moment to change the world on CO2, Gov’t policing, American education and right wrongs past from racism to healthcare.
The Baby Boomer reality was an unsustainable accomplishment. The moment has arrived, pivot near and turning. So crucial is it to get the point. Digital is in your rearview mirror, you’re not driving your Grandpa’s Oldsmobile and you may not be able to afford driving in the Future - much less want to. Work from home is much more efficient, reasonable and superior to the “office” of yesteryear.
Pandemic emergent, bio-* is ascendant. Biowarfare, biohazard and biosafety are just a few front of mind changes that have disrupted the air we breathe, chemicals we are exposed and products designed to keep us alive. COVID remains, mutant strains threaten and the human reaction will define the next era if not the disease itself.
WWIII may be declared on COVID, the virus, uniting all nations on earth, all industry, and business to overcome a devastating killer pandemic. Vaccine alone can’t stop it. Oregon is the first state to mandate permanent masks! WWIII it is.