Comment on Technology: It's About Connections

Yesterday at 12:15, Plotnik called a recording studio in Santa Barbara. When Emmit, the recording engineer answered, Plot asked him to hold on, then clicked his phone and called Davy Blue, who was in a Coffee Bean shop in West Stiletto City. So now Plot was connected to Santa Barbara and Stiletto. Then, the engineer in the Santa Barbara control room patched in some circuits and connected Plot and Blue downstairs to his recording studio, where Kristine Koggins, who plays Angel in the play, was set to record a few voice-overs. She could hear the engineer in the control room, Dave in Stiletto and Plottie in Saint Plotniko, and it was easy to direct her to a flawless performance which took maybe ten minutes.

Ten minutes after that, the engineer sent the wave forms of her performance to Dave's laptop in the Coffee Bean, and Dave emailed them to Plottie. Last night, while watching a basketball game (Hornets) with one eye and a baseball game (Plotzers) on the computer with the other, Plottie re-listened to Angel's performance and chose all the best parts, emailed his responses back to Dave, who today will email it all to the recording studio in Denver to be patched into the project this weekend.

Everywhere in the news, you read about computer fraud and identity theft, but you don't hear much about the miraculous technological age we live in. People who are fearful control the airwaves and are courted shamelessly by politicians who pander to their concerns, many of which come down to fear that the world they know is changing.

How about embracing that change? How about realizing the possibilities of the new?

Plotnik can tell you -- he is a songwriter, which is like manufacturing horseshoes. The world doesn't need horses to pull buggies anymore, and it doesn't need songwriters to sit in offices and play songs for publishers anymore either.

But the world still needs songs (to make the young girls cry). How to get those songs into the coffee shops and homes and work places of billions of people around the world, that is, onto the backs of the horses who can carry the songs where they need to go, is the new dilemma and the new opportunity.

Life is about connections. Plottie has spoken.