Russell Kirkpatrick's Journal
Lucky to be Alive
29-Nov-2006
No, I haven't had a close shave with death. I mean it in the other sense - I feel extremely privileged to be alive now.
Here I am, sitting on a comfortable couch in my media room, typing on a laptop (ooh) wirelessly connected to the Internet at high speed, listening to Muse's latest album (again wirelessly, through my computer and AirTunes) through speakers slightly smaller than European countries. So much of what we now take for granted was unimaginable twenty years ago. Certainly very few people predicted anything like the internet.
Which is where the 'futurists' make their big mistake. They extract from present technology to predict the future. All it will take is another internet or combustion engine or airplane or something similar to change everything - again.
Wow. I mean, wow. Life is just - insert your superlative. Oh yes, things like friends, love, yeah yeah yeah. Haven't forgotten those. But, just for a moment, let me reject all my puritanical church background and glory in things.
Aaaah.