Community is everywhere
Wednesday Apr 16, 2008
My cable company offers Prime Sports, with about 10 live soccer games each week, but more importantly 2 NBA games per week. Being a very big fan of basketball this subscription is a no-brainer.
During the broadcast of tonight's game (Hornets beat the Clippers), I heard the commentators talk about an interesting phenomenon of community building. The Hornets guard, Chris Paul, has other NBA stars stay over at his house if these players are in New Orleans. The mentioned LeBron James, Dwight Howard and others. If Chris and LeBron each have a night of, they will connect over the phone and start playing each other online.
The commentator mentioned that he could not imagine staying at another player's house when he was playing 20 years ago. His co-commentator rightly replied by stating that times have changed, and that connecting with other players has become much easier.
All in all, this is not something new that happens. People have been connecting with people forever. What is different now is that the way we connect is so radically different. 20 years ago I would connect with the neighbours, kids at school, at the snooker club. Now I am connecting with people all over the world, not only for work purposes, but also for fun.
Boy, have the times changed... I like it! Do you often feel nostalgic for earlier decades with no mobile phone, no internet, your Atari game computer? Let me know how you feel.
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