Archive for April 18th, 2009

The 10 Pleasures of the Modern World : 5

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We saw the following great pleasures of the modern age : 1) Great music 2) Great thrilling sports 3) Great ways of getting in touch with people 4) Great cinema The next one seems to be the ability to become the information that people search for. There is already great accessibility of information. Whichever the [...]

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The 10 Pleasures of the Modern World : 4

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Just to recap, the first 3 to my mind were : Great music, Great thrilling sports, Great ways of getting in touch with people. The fourth one, to me is great cinema. We get to see fantastic cinema. Cinema of every hue and shade which is rich and richer with more and more technology but [...]

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The 10 Pleasures of the Modern World : 3

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The third one on my list after great music and fantastically thrilling sports is great human connectivity. The ability to see and touch base with people. And even people whom one did not know virtually before. Complete strangers can come together. Take the case of dating. Especially online dating. It has spawned completely new kind [...]

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The 10 Pleasures of the Modern World : 2

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The second pleasure of the modern world, to my mind, is the thrill of the modern sports. There are a number of thrilling modern sports. It might be a simple shooting challenge with a AR 15 forearm or a wresting match in the WWF cadre. It may be the NBA basket ball tournament or a [...]

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The 10 Pleasures of the Modern World

April 18th, 2009 No Commented

Categorized Under: Entertainment

If you were to list the top 10 pleasures of the modern world, what would those be? My list goes like this : 1) Great Music. You can take the ipod. Or the simple music systems that are there. Or the home threatres. Whichever way you look at it, we seem to be enjoying the [...]

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