Wow… a soundtrack for our lives leading to the most question of our time – how we handle technology. Tying in with the last chapter and the specific applicability for specific periods of quiet, meditative thought as well as calculative thought and the seeming impossibility of finding enough time and adding the constant availability of iPod type devices was presented well. Shower thinking – in the quiet solitude was good enough for a whole series of commercials, so when Condella quotes Heidegger and arrives at a definition of the shower as one of the few places where we find ourselves alone and with our own thoughts and therefore that is precisely where what little meditative thought we engage in occurs makes sense.
Remoteness and homelessness – not as a sign of poverty but as a result of a specific type of wealth – is an interesting perspective. Having devices that bring the familiar to wherever we are, and customizing the familiar so specifically that nobody else’s environment is quite the same as yours does produce a specific type of isolation or homelessness that is rapidly escalating in prevalence. What is still lacking is a communal homeland, a specific camaraderie that transcends location that does not isolate one from locality but seeks to familiarize the traveler/nomad/technologist with other location based individuals with a similar basis for belonging.
Then, like the yoga pre-session meditation, the technological tool could become the focus of building community, not isolation. The GPS based applications of iPhone that can locate people or places may rapidly change this concept as the general public becomes more aware and more willing to adopt their offerings.
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