Shooger News

I went to a food truck round up the other night. For anyone who has not yet had the pleasure of experiencing a meal on wheels in this kind of venue, you should do yourself a favor and check one out. The food is awesome and the vibe is exciting. And as I looked around, it was so blatantly obvious how mobile we really have become as a society. The scene was lots of different people (and dogs) enjoying various foods and the environment. I realized part of what everyone was enjoying was the movement. No one was staying in one spot. People of all ages were going from one food truck, to the next, trying this, sharing that, walking, looking around, conversing, and watching kids and dogs scamper by. There was a sense of movement. Nothing about this was stagnant. And it made me think…seems as though everything about us is becoming mobile.

Our society is a mobile one. I mean mobile in every sense of the word. We move. We move at a much faster speed than society ever has. We move information at a speed that is instant. Media is live and available at a click, tap, or touch. Our society is one that is on the go. We are in motion perpetually as a whole. We look up anything we want to know immediately on the internet. There was a time when people had to search through books and pages of articles before finding more information out about something they wanted to know about. Today, our accessibility to searching for information we need or getting from one place to another is endless. We plan our trips on line. We keep in touch on line. We research on line. We shop on line. Just like that. Immediately, we can do anything we want or connect with whoever we want. We have succeeded now in making even the internet, mobile. It is expected by 2014, that mobile internet usage will surpass desktop internet usage. To see some more interesting fun facts about mobile check out this informative Infographic from Latest Tech World.

We have made it so that our phone, our mobile phone is the one thing that is always available and accessible to us for, well, basically anything. We can shop, search, plan, and write anytime we need to as long as we have our phone on us. We have developed and come to expect rapid social mobility as a societal whole.

I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s. I witnessed the progression of technology, but slowly. Not at the speed it does today. I mean, I remember when a computer screen resolution was only in black and green. I remember when beepers first came out, and how cool they were. And then, came cell phones. A mobile phone. Amazing, or at least it was then. Today, 4 billion mobile phones are in use.

And from then, till now, the evolution of the mobile phone has been quick and influential. Today it’s hard to find someone that doesn’t have a cell phone. I mean kids younger than me, have more expensive and capable phones than I do. Side note to kids today- Watch out for this generation because they are evolving almost, if not quicker than the technology itself does. The only environment they know is mobile; immediate, interactive, and ever changing.

So, here we are today, living and doing our best to keep up with mobile socialization. They key to keeping up the pace for most of us is our phone. It’s the source that is always with us, that keeps us in touch, aware, informed, entertained, and involved.