Here in Omaha, by God, Nebraska, we're taking a break this week from the Big Show, but not from music in the night.
In the process, I may have accidentally created a historical, technological and cultural mishmash for the ages. Let me explain here.
While doing some maintenance on our laptop (and waiting for the interminable latest major update to Windows 10 to . . . well . . . terminate), I decided to listen to the radio. So I turned on our 1928 RCA Radiola 18, one of the earliest "light socket" sets, which translates to "electric" from the 1920s technobabble.IN 1928, a technomiracle was as simple as "No more messy lead-acid batteries in the living room!"
"OK, whatevs," you say. But I totally get it. F'rinstance:
What if everybody's big flat-screen TV set ran off car batteries. In a cabinet. In your living room.
THEN, WHILE still waiting for the computer to update while listening to the local AM-oldies station, I decided to take a couple of geeky, artsy photos with . . . my iPhone. While the radio still is going strong after 91 years, I do not expect the iPhone to still be operational decades after I have ceased to.
Then I uploaded the pictures to the iMac, edited them, then uploaded the finished products to the blog, via the Internet.
So what you see here is a nine-decade span of technological advancement (whether it's "progress" is debatable, depending), several massive leaps of the human imagination and at least as many head-spinning cultural shifts spurred by all the other shifts.
That, when you come to think of it, kind of tires you out. That is all.
