Going back in time,
with forward thinking…
By Nick Ashton, CEO/CTO , CommSmart Global
Are we
making too much of today’s technology and how we can be so more efficient in
our daily lives? There are many who are
stuck in their own senseless aversion to progress. They challenge anyone or any forward thinking
idea, picking holes for the sake of picking holes in the brilliance of the idea
of the perfected project.
I adore the
challengers who keep saying “show me”, “prove it”, real curmudgeons with a crappy
useless mind. Is it jealousy or just an
IQ below 10 that affects this thoughtless pattern of theirs?
CommSmart Global, prides itself, or the principals do, that they are living
in this age and have captured the moment.
The ability to take a principal, idea, solution and enhanced to market
with success. It is so much fun sharing
these productive solutions on a daily basis.
For
instance:
A café
called Les Deux Magots is where Ernest Hemingway use to sit and write during
the early 1920’s. I can imagine him leaning over his pad of paper, writing
furiously as he sat there day after day for hours at a time writing out his
masterpieces in long hand. At that time, Hemingway was in Paris representing a
Canadian newspaper and writing on the side, so-to-speak. He was introduced to Gertrude Stein and Ms.
Stein referred to Hemingway, James Joyce and Ezra Pound and others, such as,
Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro as the “Lost Generation”.
Nevertheless,
in those days, the process of getting any of Hemingway’s works accepted,
approved, edited and often rewritten, took a great deal of time. There was
limited air postal service and the telegraph was only used for short news
items. I cannot help but think of how different it might have been for
Hemingway and the great literary minds of those days, which have had so much
influence on our literature today, if they had the tools of our modern era.
In fact, I
am writing my notes for a presentation on a Samsung Galaxy Tablet with a
Bluetooth keyboard. When I send this off,
it will go over the Internet to my main computer in mere nano seconds. This got me to wondering, if Hemingway had
these tools available to him, if he would have used a Galaxy Tablet or a Note? Alternatively, for that matter, would he have
used a laptop or PC? He had a typewriter at his disposal but history reports
that a lot of his writing was done in long hand.
Even today,
I run in to writers who still use paper and pen, although they are a rare-breed
these days. Most writers now use a laptop or desktop with a good word processor
and use the Internet to send their work to editors instantly. Now, getting a
response about a writer’s work could come to them in hours or days instead of
the months it took in Hemingway’s era.
Of course,
this is an empty exercise since most writers of that day used the modern day
tools of their time, which in most cases, was with pen, paper, and typewriters
if they were stationary. However, in doing research about that period, even
with typewriters available, I found that some writers thought them to be too
new fangled and stayed with their most comfortable form of writing, which was
with pen and paper. Hemingway typed when at his office, but used pen and paper
when in café’s, parks and anytime he was away from his tiny office.
But I can’t
help wondering what other great works of literature Hemingway and his writer
colleagues of that time would have given us if they had the tools of today at
their disposal. What if Hemingway could have penned more novels during his era,
if he had the advanced tools of our time? Perhaps we would have the dozens of
manuscripts he had written that were in a suitcase that his wife lost at Gare
De Lyon when she was coming back to Paris from Geneva to meet him in 1922. If
they had been in digital form and backed up, we may today be reading dozens of
other works by him to enrich our literary life.
In Woody
Allen’s fascinating movie “Midnight in Paris” he examines the idea of people of
one age romanticizing about a different age of the past and wanting to go back
and discover what it would have been like to live during that time.
Nevertheless, time travel in reverse is not my cup of tea. Rather, I love the
age of technology and instant communications, not to mention the improved
healthcare of our time. However, if I could go back in time I would like to
hand Hemingway a tablet and see if he would use it to create new literary
masterpieces. Now that would be a picture worth a thousand words and perhaps we
could prevail on Picasso to paint it!
It is here,
my friends, the digital age to make all our lives so much easier and
allow you to produce what you think, write and create in real time…
Effectively bringing the ideas, creations and conceptions here now... mixing thoughts and technology into one, hopefully making us all better for the mixture of old school and the new!
Do not let your dreams and aspirations die on the vine, call us for that inner revamp to profitability and success...
Effectively bringing the ideas, creations and conceptions here now... mixing thoughts and technology into one, hopefully making us all better for the mixture of old school and the new!
Do not let your dreams and aspirations die on the vine, call us for that inner revamp to profitability and success...
WE are in the NOW and
KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…
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