Right now, the annual E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is taking place in Los Angeles. Oh, what a glorious love-child of the Expectations society it is.

In March, Nintendo created a big hype and leapt miles ahead of the competition in people’s minds by announcing that they will release a 3D hand-held device “some time later in the year”.

Now at the expo, they showed a prototype. And were immediately countered by Sony, who announced that they will launch an even more advanced 3D experience in the form of Playstation Move, available on September 19.

Which, in turn, was countered by Microsoft, informing the world that they will have an even more advanced 3D video game technology, called Kinect, available by November 4.

As a wonderful extension of yesterday’s post comes the news that president Obama has decided to extend people’s ability to share health insurance with their parents by five years from now on, up til the age of 26.

Why extend? Because people stay home so long, which was previously a definition of still being a minor rather than an adult.

Why 26? Because that’s how far he dared go. There’s no other plausible reason, all the classic definitions of adulthood that have previously been used in government assessments – moving out of the parents’ house, marrying, getting a long time job – would require extension well into people’s thirties.

But he’s given up on those. In the Expectations society, yestermillennium standards of life no longer apply.

In the book, I write that every third man in Italy over 30 still lives with his parents. Why move out and settle down, when there are oh so many women in the world of any to date first?

Well, the latest American census suggests that the Americans, both men and women, are following suit. The number of Americans over 25 who still lives with their parents has increased by more than 20 percent since 1999! Next year, it’s estimated to be one third of both men and women. The Expectations society sure works its magic on family life…

The other week, Dana Kuchler was at home fooling around with her facebook profile, and updated her status with “I need Vicodin, Adderall and marijuana so bad”.

The next day, she was fired from her job at the West Allis, Wisconsin, alarm central. The employer explained that this was not compatible with her duties.

People who knew the nice old lady, who’d worked at the alarm central for the last 21 years, were shocked. They could testify that Dana Kuchler did not suffer from any drug addiction, only from too much spare time when she’s off work, and from an odd sense of humor.

Still, fired from her job she was, despite the fact that she wrote it as a joke, from her own home, in her own spare time.That’s the world of any for you. Anyone, anywhere, can read anything you write anytime, and put you on the spot because of a poor sense of humor. Blogarazzi-bummer.

And once again, the question arises, is there really any dividing line between on- and off-duty in this world of any..?

Ask me anything, tell me anything, knock me out!

A while back, I wrote here about formspring, which enables people to anonymously ask and tell someone whatever they want.

Time for me to live as I preach. Considering the fact that a lot of people want me to talk about myself in the summer radio show, I thought I’d sign up on formspring to get all the juicy questions no one asks to my face.

So please, stop by and give me your best shot!

www.formspring.me/micaeldahlen

I guess it’s only fair. If anyone, I’m the one who should suffer the logic of the Expectations society.

I’m soon going crazy over my next book. I’m really into it, of course, but I can’t really talk about it yet. And still, that’s the one thing everybody asks me about, all the time.

Except, of course, for when they ask me about my forthcoming summer radio talk show.

It haunts me, taunts me, that nextopia where I’m a great book writer and radio talker…

Today, SR (Swedish Radio) announced at a press conference that I will be one of their summer talkers and have my own two-hour show.

Like opening a can of worms…

Of course, true to my belief in the power of Generation Boss, and my belief in the great smartness of you, dear blog friends, I want to invite you to be part:

What do you want me to talk about, any particular phenomena, cases, personality traits that need to be aired?

Hey all,
I’m back from the road. Quite the tour. Think the next book will be pretty interesting.

And now to something completely different: I’ve landed a summer job. Tell you all about it tomorrow!

Now I’m off again, on what might be the last leg of my magical mystery tour. I’m pretty deep down in the puddle by now, better stop soon before I won’t be able to get my head above the surface again.

If all goes well, I hope to be back in three weeks. Bless you all…

When reading yesterday’s post, one wonders if people will have any time left with all the multizapping.

The answer is, of course! There’s still plenty of time left, for example, in bed, at the dinner table, and on the loo.

A recent study by an American consumer electronics website found that  49 percent of consumers access facebook and twitter at the dinner table, and 24 percent while on the loo. A whopping 48 percent logged on while in bed, and among those below the age of 25, 11 percent would even during sex. That’s multitasking for you.