Wednesday, February 4, 2009

On Tivos and Two peso coins

We are spoiled, as Digoy put it. We no longer have "Monday night habits" waiting for Dawson's Creek nor Thursday morning Friends conversations. We are so used to watching the entire season of House in one sitting that we simply can't abide watching it on its regular 60-minute time slot.

"What more if we had Tivo?" he said.

The truth of the matter is everything is so accessible now that we adjust our "TV habits" to our normal schedule. It's no longer the other way around.

Back in the dark ages of Ateneo High School, before the advent of the Digital Mobile Phone, the Beepers and even the PLDT Phonecards, our schedules revolved around the availability of the pay phone. During nights when we were to look after participants in the Days with the Lord retreat, we would actually come with our heavy bags of two-peso coins and wait our turn to use the "slot machine." This meant that if it’s not your turn yet, you still have to help out in the running of the retreat.

The point is back then our schedules were slaves to the machines, while now our machines are slaves to our schedules.

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