Who owns the media?

I feel that this article is very much related to me and my generation on a more personal level because we've all grown up with a lot of the technology mentioned in the article, and will be introduced to a lot of the more abstract stuff in the near future. I can say, with both security and shame, that two of the most habit-changing experiences in my life were the addition of unlimited texting to my cellphone plan and my recent purchase of a BlackBerry. I was heavily resistant to the cellphone craze, putting off getting one of my own until Junior year, and continued my trend of telecom resistance by protesting against the texting craze until college. However, now that I've become integrated into the text based social network, I realize how much less effective communication is without it, and find it hard to live on a day to day basis without such a connection to the world.

Strangely, I almost feel more human while texting people than talking to them on the phone at times, and this phenomenon has implications that I find scary, and eerily similar to the idea of space no longer mattering that the article presents. While the topics aren't similar on a surface level, they both indicate the severe digitalization of society, and really the entire environment, to an extent that I would never have conceived of even in Middle School, when the mobile Net craze was beginning.

I've become less resistant to new mobile tech since college, and in fact consider myself an amateur enthusiast in the area, consistently checking cnet.com for the latest and greatest news concerning cloud computing, devices you wouldn't think to have internet, and even just the newest smartphones. In time, I hope to become a master of the new smart mob dynamic and be one of the amateurs that manages to find good and marketable uses for these technologies.