SubscribeWe can only find satisfaction in a high-tech, hyper-connective present/future if we are careful to use these advancements to build upon—not separate ourselves from—a meaningful, collective intimacy. –Alex Steed
As Gen Y-ers/millennials—I’m grouping the two together since the lines aren’t clear and it still feels like such a new century!—we are a generation inclined to share. Thanks to social media, largely Facebook, we are a generation inclined to “like” things and “share” things. Which is to say, like all generations that have come before us, we like things and share things. Bear with me… What I’m saying is, we share information and ideas about work or art that interests us and sometimes work or art that we create as human beings have always done. Only the means of this sharing have changed, right? So why does it feel like everything has changed?
Sometimes when you feel like everything is changing around you, it’s because you’re 25 (or 27 in my case), and life opens up wider than you could have ever imagined in your 20s. Other times it’s because everything around you is indeed changing and you live in a remarkably interesting time in history. Due to an explosion of technologies and applications changing the methods and frequency by which we communicate and share (read John Freeman’s The Tyranny of Email), I’d say we live in a particularly interesting, deeply transformational time. Technological advances have radically changed the ways in which we engage with the world and with each other, the very way we live our lives.
