As you might know, I've been cleaning up house for the past weeks big time. The byproduct of such activity is to find things you thought were lost long ago. There is always that one box you forgot about stashed somewhere so that you would not forget, yet you forgot, that makes you laugh at yourself. Well, last night I stumbled with my DVD collection.

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The good stuff

There was a time when these things were amazing and it was not that long ago. One of my favorite stores FYE existed happily next to my old work and I was a regular there. I would not only collect movies, which of course I love, but concerts, tons of concerts.

As I'm dusting off this old box and looking through it's content, I had to ask myself something. Is this useful at all anymore? - I mean, yes I still like Paul Simon's music, that hasn't changed, but with the proliferation of youtube, vimeo, spotify, etc all these songs are available to me with a click or two. Point being that the once convenient DVDs are now inconvenient by a long shot.

So I did the only rational thing a man could do, should do; I donated them. Funny enough, the lady who receives the donations gave me a funny look, it must not be common for someone to donate a DVD collection, but I don't know why that is. It could be that she thinks I'm an idiot for letting go something valuable or that she thinks I'm an idiot for thinking they are valuable at all, the jury is not out on that one.

Informational Revolution

I remember watching a show growing up that fascinated me, I'm sure those who belong to my decade remember it vividly too: Beyond 2000. Of course 2k came and left, and none of the things the show ever predicted became true, but it's not because the possibilities were not there per say, it's just humanity went down a separate path.

You see the belief was that humanity was about to tap into an Energy Revolution. It was because of this all the things that would go with such possibility were dreamed off, the one that made me smile the most, flying cars. As you might know, such thing never did come and today, almost two decades later the electric vehicle is beginning to take some market share, but still struggling to survive.

So what happened? Why did the inventors not make us those flying jetpacks to go to work without having to deal with traffic? Well the answer is simple, we focused on information, and that is precisely the thing we value and need the most.

It was natural then that the scarcity of access had to be removed, the mediums of dissemination had to become painless and transparent. So, along came the ipod, the napsters, the torrents and an avalanche of accessibility that has led us to our current reality.

I leave you with one possible contemplation:

Tomorrow's power won't be held by those nations with more oil rigs, but with the ones that control the flow of our most precious resource: information