The current state of Western society worries me. The relentless pace of ever-innovative technology is overwhelming. On the one hand, consumer technology is becoming increasingly more sophisticated each year. Faster, smaller, better; the waves of innovation crash with an increasing frequency upon the shores of willing consumerism. With each wave, more consumers feel compelled to upgrade, to adapt, to evolve in order to keep up with the latest in electronics.
Only a couple of years ago, the Western society could be divided between the computer-literate and the illiterate. Nowadays, the have-nots become an increasingly larger group, as consumers scramble to stay ahead and even to keep up.
I don’t think there has never been a time when so much innovation has been developed in such a short span of time; a renaissance of technology. The aristocracy, so prevalent at the time, will rise again in the form of the Digirati; those who have the ability to stay ahead of the pack and evolve.
In five years time, I predict that the increased use of technological implants will mark this divide of society. And then, the interesting times will start.
