Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Today's disposable mentality

"iPhone 4 to be sold in Singapore next month?" queried the headlines on Yahoo Singapore this morning.

My parents did not grow up with fast food places on every shopping mall corner. The cars were slower.Television was in its infancy. Money was tight. It was a completely different world.

Mine is the age of microwaves, handphones, blackberries, the Internet and extraordinarily fast computers that become obsolete about 38 seconds after we switch them on.

I think the disposable mentality and dizzying pace of our world has fostered an impatient "throw it out" attitude. People are like gadgets. If they don't work out like we wanted, we just check them.

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