There is always a never ending opinion and reviews about something in this world.
People have all sorts of needs these day
I want to buy a Smartphone , read a review about it in Gsmarena or TheVerge or Cnet..
I want to buy a car, better yet a luxury car! read reviews at TopGear..
and the list goes on..
Travel reviews.. You have it..
Food reviews.. Yes, you have it...
It goes on and on and on..
Then I realize where does people get these idea to review things.
The answer might be so simple, people like to be socialized and told what to do.. the human gene is built that way.
Let us take a step far back in time.. soooooo.. far back...
Consider the cave man of ancient time, the world`s first reviewer. He gets the opportunity to explore new stuff.
A new beast to tame, a new tool to build, a frontier enemy to defeat and so on. Each time he accounts a new experience he is bombarded with information that is so much significant in sustaining his tribe and humanity.
So, he does what is best for the current time. He makes a scribe in the wall with his tools, possibly knowing the geology of the rock to mix the right amount of water and pigments from the nature to create the world`s first ink and Wall Post! Sounds cool to write it even though every term I use is now trademark or branded by facebook or google in the sense of what actually a WALL POST is!
In exploring these facts, came across the Bhimbetka Caves in Central India which has stories of ancient humans inscribed by some geeky guy 3500 or even more years ago.
These reviews and information have stood the record of time in helping us know what people use to love and what people see themselves to do once they step out of their cave.
But, imagine 2016 A.D, the year in which I am writing this blog..
Are we in the time where the wealth of information is of use? Some say it is.. some would say it isn`t.. well let's just skip the argument sake and actually see the facts.
Reviews: The blah-blah stuff of one guys fascination to experience stuff the first time. So, you are the early bird to have something new and therefore you have been given the opportunity to share the world how you actually felt in owning it. People get so carried by the fandom and wishful thought that sooner things of good value end up in trash.
This reminds me of a social experiment that I read long back, before I reveal it, let me tell you what the word of mouth can result in.. it can dethrone an empire, make a lie the truth, make a rumor a miracle and so on.
Assuming that the technology of knowing things is enough to make you the versatile enough to write and document reviews, it is not that everyone has to take it with the right spirit. on and on you can make stuff up.. 10,000 hour principle of mastering stuff by Malcom Gladwell - Outliers (http://www.amazon.in/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930) is enough to make you wise.
I believe that it is true! I also believe that not everything can be learned in this human life span of 100 years( let me be greedy on my lifespan). Everything we do now is just another experiment or experience waiting to be reviewed by someone else, all that it counts is to make it the best or the modesty to let someone else make it awesome from the best you already had.
The social experiment that I though of was the 5 Monkey and Ladder.. I leave it to you to understand what the generations of humans and our digital reviews is going to leave as expression on our future race. I mean the future us, in case the world had a Solar Storm and everything that is just Digital got wiped out ;-p Just kidding, although I do wish it would happen one day so that people value people more than stuff that has expiry date to be reviewed upon.
People have all sorts of needs these day
I want to buy a Smartphone , read a review about it in Gsmarena or TheVerge or Cnet..
I want to buy a car, better yet a luxury car! read reviews at TopGear..
and the list goes on..
Travel reviews.. You have it..
Food reviews.. Yes, you have it...
It goes on and on and on..
Then I realize where does people get these idea to review things.
The answer might be so simple, people like to be socialized and told what to do.. the human gene is built that way.
Let us take a step far back in time.. soooooo.. far back...
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| Cave men with Lots of stories and REVIEWS of the outside world |
A new beast to tame, a new tool to build, a frontier enemy to defeat and so on. Each time he accounts a new experience he is bombarded with information that is so much significant in sustaining his tribe and humanity.
So, he does what is best for the current time. He makes a scribe in the wall with his tools, possibly knowing the geology of the rock to mix the right amount of water and pigments from the nature to create the world`s first ink and Wall Post! Sounds cool to write it even though every term I use is now trademark or branded by facebook or google in the sense of what actually a WALL POST is!
In exploring these facts, came across the Bhimbetka Caves in Central India which has stories of ancient humans inscribed by some geeky guy 3500 or even more years ago.
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| Bhimbetka caves 3500 year old cave paintings, Central India |
These reviews and information have stood the record of time in helping us know what people use to love and what people see themselves to do once they step out of their cave.
But, imagine 2016 A.D, the year in which I am writing this blog..
Are we in the time where the wealth of information is of use? Some say it is.. some would say it isn`t.. well let's just skip the argument sake and actually see the facts.
Reviews: The blah-blah stuff of one guys fascination to experience stuff the first time. So, you are the early bird to have something new and therefore you have been given the opportunity to share the world how you actually felt in owning it. People get so carried by the fandom and wishful thought that sooner things of good value end up in trash.
This reminds me of a social experiment that I read long back, before I reveal it, let me tell you what the word of mouth can result in.. it can dethrone an empire, make a lie the truth, make a rumor a miracle and so on.
Assuming that the technology of knowing things is enough to make you the versatile enough to write and document reviews, it is not that everyone has to take it with the right spirit. on and on you can make stuff up.. 10,000 hour principle of mastering stuff by Malcom Gladwell - Outliers (http://www.amazon.in/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930) is enough to make you wise.
I believe that it is true! I also believe that not everything can be learned in this human life span of 100 years( let me be greedy on my lifespan). Everything we do now is just another experiment or experience waiting to be reviewed by someone else, all that it counts is to make it the best or the modesty to let someone else make it awesome from the best you already had.
The social experiment that I though of was the 5 Monkey and Ladder.. I leave it to you to understand what the generations of humans and our digital reviews is going to leave as expression on our future race. I mean the future us, in case the world had a Solar Storm and everything that is just Digital got wiped out ;-p Just kidding, although I do wish it would happen one day so that people value people more than stuff that has expiry date to be reviewed upon.
