My Pocket Media Feels Fine

I JUST REALISED I DON'T HAVE TO UPGRADE. I carry two perfectly fine smartphones and have another four older but fully operational ones in my gadget drawer. I normally walk around town with a terabyte of free storage in my pockets. At any point during the day or night, from any part of Ireland, I can normally ring my mom in the States and it sounds like I'm down the street. I can show people where I am through Qik or Bambuser and chat with them synchronously via SMS text. My moving map on Google Latitude shows me where my friends are, often with landmarks they share about free wifi or best coffee. My laptop needs a new battery, but when I slot that into its underside and select power management, I can travel out and back to any business meeting without looking for a mains jack in between. My car lets me talk to people even when my phone is in the boot--it just works. I can download any photograph, audio recording or film ever made over free and open broadband wifi nodes that I pass near my work or while in Dublin. Over the air at up to 15 megabits per second download, I can cache some of yesterday's first-run television series from the States onto a little drive that plays on my television at home. I have all this today and I'm not broke. I'm happy knowing that I can surely last another year without upgrading a single thing. So as the Irish economy continues shrinking and more people face unemployment, I wonder how many realise that they can shave their tech gadget spending and still enjoy living in a world where things are truly more enjoyable through pocket media than ever before.

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