angst doesn't hurt anyone.

today i chanced upon some article in the papers about the french wanting to digitise books - which means they're going to put lock, stock and barrel (actually they're all but words) online to construct this huge online library for illegal downloading.

of course my guess is that illegal downloading wasn't what they intended, but it is rather plain for any idiot to see that illegal downloads is a by-product of an online resource system. truth be told, i really couldn't give two hoots since i don't write books, but what i do care about is how everything is going online.

there might be no direct correlation between the existence of ebooks and hardcopy books, but implicitly don't we all know we're shifting further into the virtual world? as it is, publishers and writers probably rely on technology to get their books printed. now the french want to get their written books on the net.

opponents of this movement claims that this move will "kill" the written word. i don't think it's that extreme, not at this point in time anyway. i'm just concerned that if more and more people turn towards this trend, soon all the information i need will be online and that will bring my level of addiction to the computer to new heights.

as of today i'm already spending close to three hours on the computer each day. and we're talking MINIMALISM. sometimes it's inevitable, considering i have to maintain contact with friends, update monitoring files or do research. still, how "inevitable" is inevitable exactly?

if the retard who came up with internet decided to be a little more stupid, life could have been run at a more manageable pace. email is especially stupid. it takes the romanticism (?) out of snail mail and it gives incompetent bosses (like the ones i had in army) more room to download their work onto mine.

and it makes angsty subordinates like me even more angsty.

i think i'm being more sentimental and anti-technology than i should for one who thrives in the digital age; considering how without the internet "THE GREAT ORD MOVEMENT" wouldn't have came into being. yet i feel that the technologists (?) are overdoing it.

i won't be a prude and suggest that i read Baudelaire C., or Moliere's plays in hardcopy. firstly because i can't get my hands on those near-sacred texts and secondly because i really am not bloody interested in them. i only worry about my reliability on technology. (i'm not that noble.) i've long given up weaning off msn and facebook. this struggle is futile.

but the very least we can do is to avoid totally succumbing to technology. next thing you know avatars become a reality. and we wouldn't even need human forms. might as well be a fucking character in yoville, n'est-ce pas?

(edit: with this in mind, i shall recommend everyone not to read silly articles like this. read the article on "active school life, less premarital sex" in the home section instead. it makes for much better review material hahaha. although admittedly if i spent time doing another review on that, my time spent on the computer goes up again. screw that.)