The cB Newspaper 2nd issue, July, 2005 Options

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Table of Contents

01 Editor's Notes
02 Unveiling: xquizit - cB News Staff
03 The createBlog Health Forum - cB News Staff
04 createBlog Superlatives Results, Issue #2 - cB News Staff
05 It's Getting Controversial - Radhika [not_your_average], Kiera [mzkandi]
06 Flamboyant Rockstars and World Leaders End Poverty - Carolina [ichigofan]
07 File Sharing: Taking a Placemat from a Garage Band - Justin [CrackedRearView]
08 An iPod Society - Justin [Sadolakced Acid]
09 Losing Close Friends: Inevitable or Impossible? - Carolina [ichigofan]
10 The Offspring's Greatest Hits Album Review - Brie [Despise]
11 Today's Films - Sammi [Headphones]
12 Featured Poems - cB News Staff
13 The Ramblings of a Server - Justin [Sadolakced Acid]
14 Advice Abby - "Abby"

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This post has been edited by xquizit: Jul 18 2005, 12:56 PM

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An iPod Society
by Justin [Sadolakced Acid]
July 2005

An iPod Society

Welcome to the future. Walk down the streets, and people are no longer seen engaged in that dreadful stone-aged event known as "conversation." Any dialogue that occurs is either not heard by both parties or takes place through mediums which prevent visuals of the other person's face in an expression of disgust. The popularity of the internet has made seeing the person you speaking to a hassle, and thus, now, it is not done. Everyone now converses from the privacy of their own home. Clearly, this is an immense step forward for society.

Ever since he climbed out of the trees (or God created him), man has been able to close his eyes. He has been able to move away from flames and pinch his nose; however, he has never been able to close his ears. Then came the iPod. Sure, there were headphones before, and there were portable music players before, but the iPod brought portable music to the unwashed masses. People are now able to close their ears off from the world to the tunes of their favorite music. Hearing is no longer obligatory.

Our society is probably fast approaching the point where more people hold conversations over the phone or internet rather than in real life. Perhaps we've already passed the point where more people prefer to converse indirectly rather than face-to-face, but the computers that keep track have crashed or simply don't exist.

Welcome to the world where no one has to talk. All someone has to do is motion to their headphones, and the transaction will be completed in silence. Try it- put on some headphones, go to the local convenience store, and buy something. Chances are, you won't have to talk, and neither will the clerk.

With life in the "wild"(that's everywhere outside your front door) becoming more and more dangerous, people are increasingly remaining within the safety of their own homes. From there, they can converse with people in their pajamas. Face to face conversations don't happen anymore. They don't need to. Soon, some people whose feelings are particularly sensitive can install filters to make sure they don't see harsh or angry words on the screen. Perhaps, with the success of those, the government will install them on all internet hubs.

Within this century, mankind will have achieved the ultimate in technology: each human will be isolated in their own plastic pod. They interact merely through computers- computers that ensure nobody's feelings are hurt. Robotic minds serve them, and keep them alive. These humans of the future no longer have to deal with clumsy relationships. If, somehow through the filters, two people of the opposite sex decide they love each other, the robots will facilitate the, err, union, while each human stays in their own pod. Of course, this won't happen often, so the robots usually take the liberty of facilitating a number of unions.

The robot's sole purpose is to serve, and to serve there must be someone to serve. In the future, each human will be born, live, and die in an individual plastic white pod, which features a chrome trim that seems to collect a multitude of fingerprints.

Of course, that's just in the future. It could very well not happen. However, if we're not careful, this "iPod society" could easily become a "pod society"

An iPod Society ©2005 Justin [Sadolakced Acid]
(I'm serious about that copyright. If someone makes a book or movie about a pod society, I'm suing.)