Had to wait at the self-service checkout for the clerk to help another old man, who complained that he had so many cards--I guess he hadn't used the right number for his Safeway loyaltt account. This ties in with something from the weekend. I can imagine a graphic--two dimensional, though it ought to many dimensions. Stage one--birth: the baby icon is at one edge of a colored circle, the circle representing all the things about the world which the baby can learn and the color representing the status of the information--current, obsolete, new. At stage one the whole circle is the same color, since with respect to the baby all the information is currrent.
Stage two--the baby icon has grown, representing the information which has been learned. Meanwhile the circle has increased in size, with the increase representing new information while a little of the circle has changed color as information becomes obsolete.
Successive stages see a continuation of these developments: as time passes the amount of information which can be learned increases, the amount of information the person has learned increases, but as time goes by some of the learned information becomes obsolete.
Fast forward to my 80's:
- my interest in learning new information and my ability to do so has declined, so the modern world is getting away from me (too many cards)
- the information I've learned is increasingly obsolete. I know so many things which are of no use now.
- bottomline--there's mismatch between me and the world, which is increasing.
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