It was my intention to post more pictures from last Saturday, but this has been loitering in my drafts file asking to be published, so I’ll offer it for Thanksgiving and return to that other subject tomorrow.
Best Wishes to everyone in the USA.
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YouTube constantly brings me new musical enjoyment, which is how I discovered the group Haevn and liking their sound, added them to my favourites.
Recently I found myself listening to this piece.
It may not be everyone’s taste of course, but I find it an uplifting, happy sound.
It matters not that I don’t understand all the lyrics.
I believe they are in one of the many languages of Mozambique.
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Having every type of music readily available at my fingertips never ceases to amaze and delight me. Years ago I found it wonderful to have a radio that I could tune in to a favourite station. Otherwise I depended on the collection of LP’s that were one of my indulgences. I could never have imagined a time when I would be able to press a few buttons to access whatever I wanted.
Is it possible to explain to a young person the value of what we now have?
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Which is worth more to me, instant access to music or digital photography?
Luckily I don’t have to choose.
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What about personal computers? They have changed the world we live in and largely not for the better. More and more we have become dependent on internet access. When there is a power failure or a disruption of some sort, it’s seriously discombobulating, though I sometimes welcome such forced outages.
Having instant access to all sorts of information is brilliant though having to question the veracity of everything rather takes the shine of it.
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Assuming humanity has not exterminated itself by then, I wonder what today’s young people will be amazed by in 50 years time. What comes after artificial intelligence?
It is likely that I don’t know enough about AI to form an objective opinion, but I also don’t want to know about what seems to me a very bad idea.
The more we rely on computers, the less we use our brains. How can that be a good thing?
Here’s another video:
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Haven’t listened yet – but i will – but just had to answer your question with a “No.”
“Is it possible to explain to a young person the value of what we now have?”
I am still astonished at the kind of access I now have to kinds of information.
And as you indicate – we gain, we lose.
The past is always another country but I’m glad i knew and experienced some of it before it was lost for ever.
So very true Josie!
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Thank you, Carolyn, for the wonderful video about Mother Earth and what we do to destroy it instead of protecting as it is the only one we have. I love, as always, your photography!
In the next 50 to 100 years, the technology will progress enormously.
Joanna
Absolutely bloomin’ lovely! I really enjoyed these songs and think we do not need to understand a language to engage with and enjoy all manner of worldwide interactions.
Beautiful pictures!
When I first saw my twin step-daughters using a phone calculator to add up relatively small amounts, I did the calculations in my head before they could do them on the phone, and they were amazed. Then I discovered that they could not tell the time from an analogue clock, (they were 12 years old at the time, and are now 36) and I was amazed. I fear that reliance on technology has completely ‘dumbed-down’ the younger generations to a frighteningly low level. And it will only get worse.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thanks for sharing the music videos – I’ve never heard of them, but wow, it’s such a unique sound which I really enjoyed. Your photos with the frosted leaves actually fit very well with the music (I don’t know why, but it just works 😊). I’m quite a few years younger than you, but even I marvel at where technology is going … for me, it’s not necessarily all positive, but the young people in our group of friends will definitely not agree with me.
For example: We’re going camping this weekend, and I’m happy to just pack a book for relaxation (not a Kindle, a real book)!
thanks for the shares, lovely gifts to us