Updating Maslow

I was surfing around today when I stumbled on a poor, poor blogger that has been without internet access at her home for months but has acquired service of some kind in the last few days. I shuddered at the thought of life without internet and her recent triumph warmed my heart. Connection to the world and it's digitaly stored knowledge has become a necessity in my life. As I thought about this my mind made a leap of association (as it often does) and I recalled Abraham Maslow and his so called, Hierarchy of Human Needs.

Poor Dr. Maslow, lived in a time before computers and formulated his hierarchy in the 1940's. Thus his model shows gaping holes when it is used in modern times. It's time to bring it up to the present:

 

Maslow's Hierarchy has more problems than the single one I've corrected and there will never be consensus on a definitive ranking of needs and wants. Nevertheless, I think I've delivered a long overdue correction that everyone can agree with.

Thank you Wikipedia for the source image.