Borg Implants
Anyone who is familiar with Star Trek: The Next Generation or the M.O. Microsoft earned in the 1990s will recognize a Borg like the one below:
Amazing how life imitates art:
As an avid Blackberry user, one of my colleagues was nice enough to buy me a Jabra Bluetooth ear piece. It was a fairly unobtrusive device. Not quite as small as a cochlear implant but not Locutus-sized either. I talked happily on it without the need to raise my phone to my ear.
And then I saw the truth.....I would notice people walking down the street talking to themselves. Had the psychiatric institution swung the doors open? I saw friends come to a dinner party in their finery with the devices protruding from their ears. The soccer coach, coaching and talking about car maintenance simultaneously. Bluetooth headsets in places of worship.
I found myself taking my Jabra device in and out so as not to be confused with one of "them."
One day at my desk I went to tap my Jabra and noticed it had fallen from my ear. I swiveled around and heard the crunch one hears when crushing a cockroach in a NYC apartment. Alas my Bluetooth appendage was no more. My experiment had ended.
I know there are many great arguments in favor of these devices...Hands free when driving for example (although many cars have that without the implant). Better than cellphones from a brain tumor perspective....Etc.
I have no illusions. They will be triumphant. One day they will become the phone. So resistance is futile. You will be assimilated!
Amazing how life imitates art:
As an avid Blackberry user, one of my colleagues was nice enough to buy me a Jabra Bluetooth ear piece. It was a fairly unobtrusive device. Not quite as small as a cochlear implant but not Locutus-sized either. I talked happily on it without the need to raise my phone to my ear.
And then I saw the truth.....I would notice people walking down the street talking to themselves. Had the psychiatric institution swung the doors open? I saw friends come to a dinner party in their finery with the devices protruding from their ears. The soccer coach, coaching and talking about car maintenance simultaneously. Bluetooth headsets in places of worship.
I found myself taking my Jabra device in and out so as not to be confused with one of "them."
One day at my desk I went to tap my Jabra and noticed it had fallen from my ear. I swiveled around and heard the crunch one hears when crushing a cockroach in a NYC apartment. Alas my Bluetooth appendage was no more. My experiment had ended.
I know there are many great arguments in favor of these devices...Hands free when driving for example (although many cars have that without the implant). Better than cellphones from a brain tumor perspective....Etc.
I have no illusions. They will be triumphant. One day they will become the phone. So resistance is futile. You will be assimilated!
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