In 1989, I was aware about the last issue of Sting's art, because he had for a long time haunted my days and nights, when he was the leading icon of the Police, my favourite band for years. Several times, I saw myself playing with him, in an invisible scene, maybe in some kind of twilight zone...
For his first solo LP, he succeed to join with several tough guys of Jazz, who didn't need any time to be presented, by the fact that they all were stars in theirs own art. It was a real impression of breaking all he built, and having some courage to start again, as probably the junior, in the middle of such stars. It was what he called "the blue turtles", which gave him trouble with his secret garden, and made it possible. In this LP, all songs were obviously great (according to my own opinion, I agree...), and there was one who was called "love is the seventh wave". A former tribute to love, obviously...
Waves are such amazing things ; electronic waves, yes indeed, but sea waves more so. And there is a legend in the surfing fields, which is all about that the seventh wave is always the strongest...pushing our limits and giving new kind of hope. Prisoners who would have in history, to escape from an island and use the sea, know it. They sometimes have to wait the seventh wave to push them out of the limits of wave return, making them step beyond.
Maybe web2.0 and all environment surrounding is similar ; before we had a magnificent tool, but only tool, professional one, with search, mining information and digging the truth, email exchanges and so long. But nothing to be really such foolish about and many people have at this time, stare away their attention elsewhere, finding nothing else than sometimes, boring situations.
Then web2.0, a generic name for tech and social environment, entered the dance, as a kick in our uses, as if an invisible wave, more powerful, more clever, more lighted stuff, to bring us new strength and rearing the limits. People just had to live with, learn, and look around, to see others, in a Darwin reflex, adapt itself to new uses and states. First surprised, then breathless. Maybe this wave was unbelievable, maybe there was no captain to see it explode. Anyway, it's there, part of new digital lives, digital uses. And brings us new digital power, we can't see limits yet (and that's better so...). See how it evolves each day, on such collaborative work and open source effects, see the extraordinary power and how it spreads its wings on people doom. Nothing will ever be the same, by the fact that we can't remember how it was before, blinded by progress sparkles.
This wave became these waves. Managed by several accidents of fortune and destiny, opportunities for speaks, talks and wuthering winds, brought by different aknowledgements, it became a daily sport, without any effort, a kind of social behavior, meeting opportunities, crossroads for opinions and affordable links. Two ways, interactive, exploding the limits, in a new big bang, digital revolution, multiorigin breakdown, giving devices and power from fewer people to powerful corps. No ones remembers how it was, and even if so, found it so far from nowadays skills. Like sea world isn't it ? Don't you feel the power of the seventh digital wave, web 2.0 one ? This one, which bring us far, far from any kind of possible return...
Maybe next generations will live in oceans (don't forget our desperate doom with mother nature and the warmer situation which drives ice to vanish...), but maybe there will be an aim too : find sea waves and merge them with electronic ones, in a same trance, a social vibration...