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Date Posted: 11/17/04 6:56pm
Author: Deacon Tom Buenavista
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From My Vantage Point This World is Shrinking

Like an excerpt from Alduous Huxley's "Brave New World" I watched with amazement as a young man riding a carabao sent text messages using a wireless cell phone... It was surreal.

I can't help but notice the different addresses of the people making posts in this message board; none of them local. Although a great majority of the posts originate from the US, I have seen posts coming from places as far away as Africa, Great Britain, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East. And not to forget those in the immediate vicinity, i.e., Japan, Australia and Hong Kong.

All far away places of origin that's for sure - brought together electronically to a point of convergence here in this forum. I still marvel at the technology; it's as if we Tagudinians were all gathered in the town plaza as in a town fiesta, conversing and catching up with news and such. I bet not too many people these days appreciate email, the net, wireless and cell phone technology, palpably saying under their breath "why that's old technology".

I had an opportunity to go back home to Tagudin for a visit not too long ago and was totally amazed to see a young man sitting on a carabao in the middle of a field in Taliawen. In his hand was a cell phone. He was texting! It was an incredible sight to behold at least for me.

Besides being amazed, after a while I realized how behind the times I've really become in thinking that folks in Tagudin couldn't possibly have (that many) cell phones. After seeing that young man on his carabao use a cell phone I've become a believer. I believe this world has been shrinking, getting smaller unbeknownst to me.

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