Imagine if you told someone 30 years ago that they would spend thousands of dollars on devices that remove them from reality, that place control over their persons in the hands of corporations, that cede access to their nervous system, that chart their every location and activi-ty, that invade not just their privacy but the inner workings of their minds, and that they would do so willingly, even enthusiastically. People would have thought you were ludicrous. Yet that is what has happened, and I often visit with people that just parrot information that comes out of electronic devices without thinking.
A recent addition to the drug inventory is a new weight-loss injection for somewhere around $1,000 per month that allows one to eat prodi-gious amounts of food but instead of becoming obese these injections negate the effects of all these extra calories. The first commercial en-courages you to stuff down junk food and the next commercial shows you this drug that will make you look like Twiggy.
Interesting times as we shift from the manufacturing age to the Infor-mation Age. A hundred years ago we were making another historic change from agriculture to industrial and that time was known as The Roaring Twenties. Everything seemed possible and it was at the end of the Gilded Age where wealthy individuals owned America. Everybody with any spare change was invested in the stock market and bragging about how much they were making each day as it went up.
