I do not know about you but I enjoy the time on my boat getting away from the connections of the daily world... Standing and scanning th horizon at least every 15 minutes.
Maybe that is why I found the book, and now the movie (that just showed up on Amazon) The Circle as disturbing as 1984, or the Net, or Black Mirror... This is the millennial version.
What struck me is the comment that “going off kayaking alone was denying the rights of participation for the son who has MS and cannot leave his home”. It caused me to wonder about the sailing YouTube video blogs that have sprung up and are being watched by hundreds of thousands and paid for by “Patron’s”. Believing they are living the life of the sailor by watching a video of someone sailing. This screams “The Matrix” to me. Maybe it is just me. Maybe I have taken the red or was it the blue pill.
Or the situational sitcom about the “Crowd” solving crimes.
Is technology helping or hurting us. How many times have you caught yourself watching the monitor while you track your path, switching on the radar then checking the FLIR Cameras on your MFD, yet not scanning the horizon for 45 minutes or an hour. (Say it is not so).
Could that thinking have contributed to the tragedies affecting the US Navy this past 18 months?
It is said the technologies of some power boats have been the cause of more than one boat crashing into a break water.
What are your thoughts about Social Communities like facebook/twitter/instagram/etc.
I know the irony... I am asking this question of online friends and fellow sailors sharing their ideas through SBO...
Maybe that is why I found the book, and now the movie (that just showed up on Amazon) The Circle as disturbing as 1984, or the Net, or Black Mirror... This is the millennial version.
What struck me is the comment that “going off kayaking alone was denying the rights of participation for the son who has MS and cannot leave his home”. It caused me to wonder about the sailing YouTube video blogs that have sprung up and are being watched by hundreds of thousands and paid for by “Patron’s”. Believing they are living the life of the sailor by watching a video of someone sailing. This screams “The Matrix” to me. Maybe it is just me. Maybe I have taken the red or was it the blue pill.
Or the situational sitcom about the “Crowd” solving crimes.
Is technology helping or hurting us. How many times have you caught yourself watching the monitor while you track your path, switching on the radar then checking the FLIR Cameras on your MFD, yet not scanning the horizon for 45 minutes or an hour. (Say it is not so).
Could that thinking have contributed to the tragedies affecting the US Navy this past 18 months?
It is said the technologies of some power boats have been the cause of more than one boat crashing into a break water.
What are your thoughts about Social Communities like facebook/twitter/instagram/etc.
I know the irony... I am asking this question of online friends and fellow sailors sharing their ideas through SBO...