I have always been fascinated with great architecture and as a child I could never figure out why all the old buildings were without balconies. Until someone explained the concept of leisure time for people to actually spend time on their balconies. We built machines in the industrial revolution to take away the need for manpower and I'm sure people thought it might give them some time off work but they ended up working longer hours producing more. So as a concept, leisure time is relatively new and wasn't really embraced until the post war years and even then it's probably only the last 40 years that we have taken advantage of that time provided by better business efficiencies.
Now that we finally have our time to spend on balconies, it seems we want to fill it up with technology to try and find even more time. The simple act of using a phone, albeit one not attached to the wall anymore, to make a dinner reservation, get in touch with a friend or even call in sick has been replaced by an app. Okay the last one you still have to do but I'm sure an app is on the way. Seems there are so many apps vying for our attention that our leisure time is now taken up with finding new ones to supposedly give us more time. Time for what, finding more apps?
In the world of apps everything we do is looking to be aggregated, assimilated, converged and merged into simple tasks to make life easier and time efficient. From games we used to play with people, that we now play against computers to simple apps for dinner reservations we are finding more ways to occupy our time with apps that supposedly save us time. So much so, that I'm now looking for an app that can aggregate all my aggregated apps and save me time while looking for that particular app that is supposed to save me more time.
Okay so slightly OTT but you get the drift. There is a whole world of apps developers who used to make other stuff, not sure what, but who have now dedicated themselves to providing us with more apps than we can use in a million years. What I'm looking for is that ultimate app for every task and thought process in my life. I know it's somewhere in the Apps Store, I just need the right app to find it.
Who so ever comes up with that app will be the Mark Zuckerberg of apps and will no doubt end up with their picture on Time as apps person of the year. There will be apps Oscars, apps Emmys and eventually they'll have to give out apps Pulitzers because people will stop writing, reading and performing and just build an app for whatever people want to see and do.
James Cameron is probably working on an actor app as Avatar no doubt whetted his appetite for replacing real people with something from the Apple app store. Is that where we are heading? If so you need to put down that phone or tablet and go sit on your balcony and enjoy the day before they develop an app for that.
I can feel a bit of a headache coming on, now where is that "sickie" app?
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