Joe Moody’s Web Adventures

Everything is getting smaller and faster, IBM unveils a computer so thin it resembles a book, you open it like a book and it sits on your lap — echoing Apple’s sentiment that computers will be in the hands of many, not just a few.

America is feeling more cheery and “together” than perhaps any time since the 1950’s, so they say. This culminates in an event known as Hands Across America. The perscription of the day is to relieve 80’s consumption-induced guilt by donating to celebrity-endorsed charities.

Afterall, this is an age where celebrities speak directly to mainstream America through the several radio stations and half-dozen television stations that rule the zeigeist.

And now this unified mainstream reached its peak with Hands Across America. As naively hopeful as it seemed, the idea was to join hands in an unbroken human chain from the East to West Coast.

At 3:00 p.m. on May 25th, hands joined across America in an impressive chain. It may have been broken in various sparsley populated points, but it showed the world a unified and content America backed by the musicians and actors the world adored.

And the radio stations we all listen to, that play the same handful of songs we all hear, together played the Hands theme song at that moment.