The Shifting Sense of the Present Moment

Not sure where my sense of the present and/or contemporary situation comes from in my case, I do sense a shift that the present global and local indicators register that affects how I represent to myself where the world moves and how one can map one's position on this changing geography of global flows and places. The development hitting closest to home to my sensibility is the rise and rise of netbooks as a new category of device that apparently promises to reshape the computing landscape. Strangely enough, reminiscent of the one laptop a child trend this technological development can be hoped to made biggest changes in the countries loosely named the second world, these places that are neither too affluent nor too poor to fit into a binary opposition of the opposition between the global North and the global South. Not only that but the fact that there appears to be a more unexpected than usual convergence between the two towards an average amount of insecurity of long before declared analytically insufficient classification between these two abstract groups too that makes the developing world, another term crying for a more precise definition, that sets the terms of what counts for a cool device. Taiwan and China turn out to be new and unexpected trailblazers of what is actually considered to be a new and trendy development in the everyday life of our electronic environment on a global scale, since it is difficult to believe that iPhone's portability and capabilities are going to make as much of difference for an average person regardless where she or he is, as a full-blown and truly portable set-up of netbooks would. Besides, netbooks are already a category rather than a brand-name that are fast coming to the coffee-shops near you.