A Wormhole In The Time Fold Of The Universe
September 15, 2011 * * * * * Posted by: Puna 
Ten years ago, the grand twins towers of one of the greatest cities in the world came tumbling down. Ten years ago there were no iPhones, no Twitter, and Facebook was a baby face fledging confined to Mark Zuckerberg's imagination and launched shortly after in the hamlets of the Ivy League social life.
Blogs? What were blogs? Only newspapermen and political junkies who hung out at conventions blogged. MySpace was still the newest "in" thing - and then there's Google. The massive powerhouse with the funny name was just making its debut into the digital world and cool kids knew what it was all about while their parents said, "What is that crap?"
Well, that crap now rules the cyber world.
That brings me to this point - how short is ten years within the millenium of eternity as experienced by the average lifetime? And how will our world look ten years from now? Is it me or is time compressed? What would take 20-30 years to accomplish 20-30 years ago now takes a year to materialize. The math doesn't add up I know; it's the dichotomy of it all. One half of reality stays in this world governed by the traditional laws of physics, while the other half - the half that governs perspective - is warped in the quantum cosmos of our minds.
It's not that we're not paying attention - my English teacher would chastise me for the double negative if she were alive. I believe she passed away ten years ago. It's just that we are busy keeping up with and celebrating that changing world. Here we are at Vision and Verb, a community of women who have lived a lifetime and assimilate ourselves by being in kinship in a world that didn't exist ten years ago.
We should be proud of ourselves ladies - just sayin'. We could be sitting around looking at our young folks and saying, "What is that crap?"
Bravo to you ladies for not just keeping up - but flourishing and making our presence known. Ten years from now? We'll still be here but perhaps writing in a time warp or worm hole in the fold of the universe; who knows.
Let me make a bold prediction. Ten years from now, Facebook will be a dinosaur. Who's with me?
Time
Reader Comments (16)
Bravo, and interesting reflections well crafted. It's evident that you had an English language teacher. I wonder where language will be in another decade. Perhaps there will be a New Initiative to revive elegant expression such as one finds at Vision and Verb.
I enjoyed your quantum physics fantasy at the end. I relish the idea of writing in a worm hole. Will it be fast or slow, or just instantaneous?
Smiles,
Ros.
How interesting to view us writing from within a time warp...I have visions of Captain Kirk and being beamed up to visit each other all over the planet. Technology is sure flying at the speed of light...So better to jojn it
You are so right Puna, ten years from now Facebook will be a dinosaur ;-)
It's so true. We are living in a time when change happens as fast as the click of a mouse. The natural evolution of things seems to accelerate itself - in every which way we look.
I have this sudden vision of our kids - someday - explaining to their kids what the facebook phenomenon was all about..and how it ruled and dictated their social lives. And that their kids/our grandkids - would simply scratching their head in disbelief...wondering if life was ever really as slow as all that?!?!? :-)
Terrific post!!!
Love the picture. The heron is doing his thing the way he's always done it. There really is nothing new under the sun.
I love it, I love it, Puna! All of it. It was at least 10 years ago when I heard that what had changed in the previous 25 years was more than all of the recorded years before. THAT is a time warp! I hope to God Facebook becomes a dinosaur, sooner than later. I still don't get it! But let's hope that whatever takes its place makes a lot more sense. And let's hope our grandkids, when they get to our age, can write in complete sentences and still know how to laugh a good belly laugh!
i already feel like a dinosaur! i don't have an iphone. i still write letters in the post. i use the telephone. i cannot imagine 10 years from now, because i surely wouldn't have imagined this!
but, it's all good!
thanks for the inspiring post!
I think people felt the same during the industrial revolution when trains and cars came, and then planes. So what is next? I guess Facebook won't even last for 5 years. Wonderful post
I so love the title to this post :-)
The cyber revolution does seem to have snowballed and grown so very quickly, but as a previous commenter said, so did the industrial revolution.
I wonder what will come next??
As to facebook, I think it is just a passing phase...
A very thought provoking post, Thank you.
Terricif post, Puna - I love it! And I'm a bit with Ginnie, wondering whether people (not only our grandkids) will still be able to write complete sentences - with correct grammar and spelling. Seems to be a challenge today already. I kind of like Facebook, but I'm pretty sure it will be a dinosaur in ten years. The thing is, I can never imagine WHAT will be there, but when it is I wonder why it hasn't turned up earlier.
And like Honey, I still enjoy writing "real" letters (and receiving them). And I just don't like the phone - either landline or mobile.
Puna...love, love, love, your post!! Time for me is an interesting subject. For me, time is multidimensional, which is to say I feel that everything is happening simultaneously. Still challenging to get my own head around intellectually; and still there it is. All of my lives are happening right now and if I so chose, I could dip into any one of my my other lives. I know it sounds fantastic but, why not. That's how I relate to karma and even some of my dreams that are clearly from a different dimension. My visual for this is that there are simply multitudes of layers and levels...
And yes, for me Facebook and Twitter have kept me busy but, I'm actually thinking about letting both of them go and putting more time and effort into my own blog site, Flikr, and this site....where I feel such connection and community. THIS is the real revolution! Remaining connected even through the cyber world!!
Blessings!
oh yes, totally with you. great post, so true, and it is so hard to keep up these days. but even so, the world keeps getting smaller as we learn how to interact with the globe right here in our living rooms. i can only imagine what the next ten years will bring.
I'm right there with you Puna. You make such excellent observations. Where will we be in 10 years? We will still be here with strong voices, hopefully each and every one of us...but what our world will look like holds infinite possibility!
Great observations, Puna... But (although I'm not always looking for the bad stuff in the World), I ask myself: how come that our progress is so great and fast, but we're still having wars, hunger, etc. In the era when it looks like we 'know everything', and can see what's down there in Africa or up there in Alaska..., I just don't get it.
It's great that we have all this progress in technology, but I'm sad that we don't use it more wisely.
But I'm still hoping for the best :).
Of course you know that old saying - necessity is the mother of invention. But in our time, invention increasingly seems to be the mother of neccessity - someone invents something, and suddenly all the cool kids (and parents and grandparents) assume they MUST have it.
Fiddlesticks. There's an old word for you! In the past year I quit Facebook, limited my tweets to blog post announcements and such, and tossed out the television - literally. I live now in a quiet house, and the sense of things speeding along at breakneck speed is gone. I read, I listen to my cat and my clock, I check the computer or radio for news now and then, and all is well.
I suspect the gadgets are not the problem, but their false promise to make us more human, more productive or more lovable. There will be new gadgets in the future, but the same question will remain - will they help us to be human?
I embrace all things new and the changes that come with them. It is interesting because I don't love big changes, but the creeping little ones suit me fine. I like moving forward.
A very thought provoking post and so well written and executed.