Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Reference

We all need to reference material on occasion, correct?
Be it to check on our own works accuracy or on people as in recommendations.
Referring to items or persons in our world is an everyday occurrence, right?
But unless we have a method to make sure we get it right then most of these items would be suppositions.

I enjoy researching information on numerous topics and I just go bonkers for the immediate access that we all get with utilizing the internet!
Gosh, nothing wrong with these information highways as they are called.
Amazing is an understatement with the quickness that we have of everything right here at our fingertips literally!

Disagreements and discussions can be tamed with a few clicks of the wrist plain and simple. Searching for the answer to any question is basically without delay; only as quick as you can type.
Who besides me doesn't gawk daily at this wonderful invention and all of its abilities that can cause us all to be so much better informed than in our wildest dreams of decades ago?
It’s like so many other things that we take for granted in life.
This generation would all be jaded as ours was with the TV and telephones… although, you must admit that the evolution of those two in particular was and still are astonishing; since to this day they are always changing!

Have you ever had the desire to know why something is?
Or who someone is?
From apples to zebras the internet has taken the place of dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, newspaper, books you name the materials and medium it covers beyond our imaginations.
We are able to talk to people all over the world just by pushing or touching a few keys and some by only using their voices, which to me is mind-blowing!
You can zero in on your own home, know where your children are or your car too!
Depending on what type of programs you install, and yes due to programs like Skype people can have face to face chats no matter where they are!

Yes, I know I am gushing, but seriously we all should be.
Technology is something the nay-Sayers I truly believe cannot grasp the newness of these things.
Now if I wanted to know how many people actually use computers and the internet I can just put that question up on one of the many search engines available for free to all of us, and sure enough: Answers.com came up with the answer of 365 million use computers and 1,733,993,741 use the internet! How about that for instantaneous information, wow! Huh? Those numbers don’t jive. I bet it’s because of all those internet connected phones, cars etc., gotta be? I’ll get back to you on that.
Are you impressed? I still am and will be for many years to come.

I suspect clarifications of stats is all in how you ask your questions and that is only human. Mistakes can be made and often if not properly asked when trying to get that information we can get the wrong stuff without realizing it, correct?
Fact checking then should be duplicated and even done in triplicate I would suspect when needing it for sensitive work related situations.
But we hacks of the writing for our own interests and concerns type should just find sites that we know we can trust for whatever we need to float our boatloads of information we disseminate daily to give some worthwhile facts to our readerships nightly.
What we do is not earth shattering but still should have a smattering of accuracy!

And so the reference I made to referencing is of our ultimate choice to be better people with the ability to gather facts in actuality at the drop of a hat! And if that doesn’t send chills down your spine when you think that only fifty years ago we had dial up phones and black and white TV pictures and no cable or internet!
Wow what a time to be living in, huh?
HA we have so much and rarely realize that significance, but we all should…

On that thought to ponder I will wish you all a very happy good night and I will also ask you all to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

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