Is the future created better in the then, than in the now?

It's a matter of choosing a phone, or choosing a new mindset. 

Many of us who stayed up for the announcement of iPhone 4 had easily read 30+ online articles, live stream videos across the net, sharing and voicing out thoughts after thoughts over this new device. We are comparing features and sizes, analyzing the differences between models built now and then. But are we viewing this release as new "phone," or something else?


Until the release of iPhone 4, I had only realized that this is not a phone, but a whole new way to live. While phones in the such of EVO 4G are developed to enhance our life and communication as a "super-phone," iPhone 4 transforms our mentality and how we look at the time ahead of us. For years of mobile battles, we've been looking for that One Phone to take better photos, smoother video, clearer chats, longer battery life, richer interface and experience. But what some may have neglected to see is that there will always be a better, more super phone out there, if you are simply just looking for yet another hand-held telecommunication device. I admit it, I was one of them. I was looking for just another phone, thus iPhone was never in the list of consideration. iPhone just simply didn't have enough to make my "professional life" better. I wanted a gadget, and I was viewing technology from what I need and what's available now. And that simply doesn't cut it, because there will always be new needs developed around us, and the moment you actually own a new phone with all new features, you will find new needs surfacing just during the discovery of existing features. No matter how new the phone is. That is because we generate needs from what's available now. We are not thinking ahead of the technology and we are looking at Technology as it is. So if you are expecting the same standard applications  from a Blackberry to iPhone, or you are expecting the mail system to work comparatively better in the iPhone 4 than in your EVO 4G, you might never get what you are expecting. But you are getting everything you didn't expect. Everything you didn't expect out of a "Mobile Phone." 


But what if we change the mindset, turn ourselves around to think about the humanity, the socio-logicality, the way one feels and touches one another, and the way our wavelength works while thinking about someone or some object?  Can digital devices be created better and more advanced when we actually don't think about the technology around them? Can we actually create the future by drawing ourselves back to the very basic human needs and those unimaginables without being interrupted by conglomerate of sciences?  


Is the future created better in the then, than in the now? 


I can't say that iPhone 4 has reached this point, but at the very least it's heading there, and trying to lead us to a new era not by digitalizing what we have now, but by removing seams and gaps between people. It's that simple. When a mother wishes to see her daughter that she hasn't seen in years, if you ask her, she'd say she's ok with a phone call. She will use any phone to get that done, and probably won't consider those with the new and better features just to make a call. She will tell you, it's just a call, I'm just hearing my daughter's voice, it's all. But what she really prefers is probably the actual presence of her daughter. And a phone will not do it no matter how hard it tries.


For now, my mind foresees iPhone 4 to start leading a new era of how we live. It doesn't draw people away from each other by creating more convenience, but by bringing people closer with more presence of one another. So if you ask me, I won't choose anymore. I will have EVO 4G as a phone, a super phone to be fair. And iPhone 4 for creating a life.