RE:CONNECTIVITY: "IT's what's showing..."

Inside, Out: No, not the movie, which I told you here, if you are a 'regular', I would not bring up again for a byte...notice the punctuation, specifically the comma, which changes the meaning of lots of stuff...here to acknowledge how IT ITself has changed, punctuated our lives, both in and outside of our homes, the whole range and meanings of CONNECTIVITY, both individually and collectively, has been transformed. So many social and psychological ramifications, I could set up a whole new blog (hmmm, I wonder if they would tune in for IT?)...I digress, part and parcel of the subject matter at hand here, both plot and theme...meme...

Digression, Regression, or...A simple way to look at how IT is working for or against you, how you yourself are either harnessing or being harnessed by...Both way before and well after the pandemic. That is, prior to being prompted to (physically to be more technically accurate) "socially distance" ourselves even within families, let alone between...after we have been able to reconnect, such as what we are seeing these days via a literal surge of visiting newborns (well, they may be toddlers by now), attending graduations, weddings, funerals...all the steps, milestones of life worth marking, witnessing, celebrating together, after a dirge of opportunities, the past several months...so many invites, all at once after none for so long, we may find ourselves looking for a whole new kind of surge protector, to protect you, especially if you are only a byte of an introvert, from getting overwhelmed -- another app that is likely being invented, 'patent pending' as I write, another .com fortune I just missed out on due to being 'otherwise occupied', as I find myself...

Re:motely Accessible, SimultaneoUS: One of the biggest ironies, contradictions, 'law of unintended consequences' of "remote access", all the IT stuff available to both businesses, families, schools (especially the past few years), and individuals...whether you, your org, is connecting via LAN, WAN, or even VPN, you have experienced the simultaneous phenomenon of being able to be more connected to more people, apps, than ever, while also reporting, if you bothered to click on IT when IT was sent to you, an "anonymous survey" regarding CONNECTIVITY, at this very moment perhaps, feeling more 'dis'connected than ever, at least in the sense of feeling connected in a meaningful sense, even intimately. For example, way before CV came to our shores, teens as a group were reporting this, partly due to the numbers of apps coming at them, distracting them, and due to the numbers of 'superficial' versus more intimate connections, and finally due in part to stepping away from everyone at least temporarily, "getting off social media completely", doing an electronic palate cleansing, because you were so 'dissed' by someone "you used to know", or at least thought so...we can all re:late...are we feeling more or less connected, more or less accessible, approachable...present as in 'at hand' (readily accessible when needed), or instead through a sleight of hand, a simple "click", as in...

Byte of Wizardry: As in "Our Family Wizard", "...with OFW, your schedule, expenses, and communication are contained in one app, so you can solve...less conflict and more energy to focus on your children..." In my professional experience, as well as to make you, if you have been ordered to use this by a court, in the case of more intransigent parents, more 'assessable'. Yet another technology, software, I should have, could have created, given the numerous families I have encountered who have, after a period of 'relative harmony', in this case due to divorce, created an atmosphere (IT only takes one to do so, in my experience) of 'dis'harmony, to such a degree to warrant such alternative ways to CONNECT. Or even, in the case of being prompted to 'socially distance', CONNECTING via IT becomes the "new normal"...

So, Which is IT? Where are you with all this, all these IT apps, ops, are you more or less CONNECTED, are you more or less accessible, approachable, fully engaged with the one in front of you...at least remotely?  For me, personally, IT, this had already proved challenging well before the advent of all these hand-held devices, ear buds, streaming, screaming "hand over the remote!"