World Wide whirlwind...

I've signed up to so many different websites, online forums, email accounts, photo galleries and what-not that I'm beginning to lose track of all my different personas. Apart from having usernames of my choice not being available, I suffer from occasional bouts of "online schizophrenia" as well so that doesn't help any.
Even in instant messaging, I have 3 different ways to keep in touch with people from Yahoo to MSN to ICQ. Being an early adopter of ICQ, I started with having a 4 or 5 digit ICQ account number (I forget if it's 4 or 5) and now, I've settled on a 7 digit account which hopefully, I will remember for the rest of my life.
I should start a service which allows people to consolidate all their different accounts into 1, simple webpage. Maybe that'll earn me some cash. But the prospect of having to travel continents is rather daunting. Perhaps I could suggest to Microsoft to start something like that and perhaps get a 9-5 deskjob out of it...NOT!
Getting lost in information is becoming common these days. Trying to find information via the internet is another daunting task. This is the world we live in today. The age of MTV, Video and radio is a thing of the past. We've moved on. It's now interactive or inactive. Even with television, they're trying to integrate websites of some form or other. Is it really that worthwhile? Is it productive or counter-productive? People spend more time on the internet bantering idly more often than not.

We don't really live in a global village. At least not yet. We are still separated by borders, culture, language et al. eBay for example may be global but there's still country specific sites, shipping to within a country etc. Japanese websites are still, well, in Japanese; the same goes for Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese websites. In order to be truly global, we as humans have to come up with a language that's easy to understand, is able to describe everything and is adobtable by everyone. So far, it seems to me that English is the popular choice. What have we learned from the internet? Nothing much except that it gives terrorists another way of telling people that 'They did it' and 'They'll do it again'.

Has it really made life easier? I don't know. Email has helped speed communications up a little but what's an email compared to a phone conversation? Where does it bring us? A little convenience perhaps cause now, instead of having to send in the warranty card for my recently purchased LCD TV, I can just register the bugger online. Ah...the convenience of not having to walk to the postbox. I'm not surprised that in the distant future, humans are all gonna evolve into 500kilogramme slugs with no arms and legs since computers and speech recognition's gonna handle everything.

Oh well...