In the immortal words of Studs Terkel
a few years back, heard on car radio - his quip, after a brilliant essay was ~
Oh yes, 'communications' (are) everywhere. But communication?
That may not stand-alone sans voice inflections, but I think he made the case for there being a plethora of gadgets that have that name on them, but which do not foster other than the most superficial kinds of [??] fact-exchange? and often just - time-filling - as all those kids sending text messages with Nothing in them except, Yo! Got yer Yo! Yo! back. And far from.. just the younger 'kids'.
But I do hope yours is the better perception, because if it's not, or not in-time = before the nukes start making brownish/purplish flowers grow.. no more time to grow up after that. (After the first few, IMO it will most likely descend to the Rand Corp's apt description, from the birth of that first? Think Tank in the '50s: spasm war.) I remember Edward Teller, LeMay et al and their Spirit Lives in Kissy and the other stone-cold-faced neoconmen and, in little-Jesus: in Spades. Zealots all.
I'm periodically lobbying the Bulletin (of the Atomic Scientists) to move that clock a lot closer than 7-of-Midnight, as it remains on my last issue. Not that anyone much reads that, except those who already Get It about those 40K or more individual funeral pyres and the minutes-away launch of Too-many, which the US or Russia might opt-for any time.
We have to recall often now: both these Nuke Supers are now under Authoritarian near-One-'man' governance and the Codes-Bagman assuredly Is.. Some movers/shakers Do notice that symbol, en passant.. it's Logo-World/Slogan-World for most -- ergo I focus just now on That simple but Pithy one.
For all our sakes, I certainly hope that the \ufffd-cel conversations which I overhear -- are not the sort which your kids immerse in. There's no question what is possible with all this techno, but we have a rather poor record of using any of them for more than mindless time-killing. Of course a real SHOCK could alter all of that.
But.. Can anything less?
