Brizel: Micro-time - mobile’s redefinition of time

Mobile technology has redefined time into what I would call micro-time. Things happen so quickly it’s literally in the blink of an eye, I mean we have changed culture already in the blink of an eye just by texting. Things happen so preposterously fast that we now look at faxes... faxes, which in 1985 were extraordinary. Faxes replaced overnight mail and bicycle messengers and having to make photocopies and sending them across the world. You could send a fax and people would stand around a fax machine and just watch the paper as it fed through because it was so amazing. Now people are not even using the voice element on their mobile phones because it’s not fast enough, they can send a text. This is something worth sitting up and paying attention to because if it gets any faster we’re just going to be telepathing each other, which... I’m all for telepathic, but...