Communicating With the Future.

On New Year's Day around the world, something amazing happens that few people really seem to notice because it happens so gradually.

I'm communicating with people in the future. Telecommunication now allows me, and an exclusive club of others known as internet users, to communicate at a cost approaching zero with people from the year in the future right now: 2006. I wish they would hurry up and write the news, or tell us something more profound than the future than, 'it seems a lot like last year, though we are having fun celebrating'. The distance between us, at least through telecommunications medium, has gotten closer to zero as well - sort of like the picture at the top of this post.

No matter how fast we communicate, though, it's still the same planet. One part of the Earth is not older than the other, it is all the same age in the grand scheme of the universe. This conceptualization of time may have to change... we may have to start teaching kids to think in GMT.

And while I'm talking about time, let's toss this whole idiotic daylight savings time idiocy. We're not chucking spears anymore.