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Sep. 22nd, 2003 11:22 pmI've been thinking about my own seemingly shortening attention-span, and that of those around me...yes, projecting outward to the masses, is it a result of the changing media? SO strange to try to visualize this possibility into the future.
I relish reading books as a more and more necessary brain exercise/comfort these days...of having my mind lead slowly and steadily on a more linear track...whereas the very freedom and nonlinearity that the web allows me and that I love, the speed, the hyperlinks and google searches..the interactivity,the connections, messages sent and received, sent and received...drains me often, renders me Less able to 'flesh-out' a thought in paragraph form. My communication has become very dependent on links and images. Socially, I feel a (growing?or lessening?)ineptitude, wishing I could just POINT at things,books at home, pictures off the web,artpieces I've made...grunt, raise my eyebrows and squeal or something. Rip a chunk of mind off and shake it at someone.."THIS!! What about THIS!!?What do you make of it!?" Crumple various concepts physically together in a ball and throw it at the person and run.
E-mail allows me that. Real interaction finds me smiling nervously and going to the veggie dip.hmmm.
Walk this forward a few years. Will the handheld computer/cellphone become a normal part of our face-to-face communication...augmenting our discussions with imagery and links? Will we become less verbally coherent? Will conversation created 'from scratch' be relegated to more of a hobby/luxury status as we exchange recombinations of readily available floating data and imagery packets?
I relish reading books as a more and more necessary brain exercise/comfort these days...of having my mind lead slowly and steadily on a more linear track...whereas the very freedom and nonlinearity that the web allows me and that I love, the speed, the hyperlinks and google searches..the interactivity,the connections, messages sent and received, sent and received...drains me often, renders me Less able to 'flesh-out' a thought in paragraph form. My communication has become very dependent on links and images. Socially, I feel a (growing?or lessening?)ineptitude, wishing I could just POINT at things,books at home, pictures off the web,artpieces I've made...grunt, raise my eyebrows and squeal or something. Rip a chunk of mind off and shake it at someone.."THIS!! What about THIS!!?What do you make of it!?" Crumple various concepts physically together in a ball and throw it at the person and run.
E-mail allows me that. Real interaction finds me smiling nervously and going to the veggie dip.hmmm.
Walk this forward a few years. Will the handheld computer/cellphone become a normal part of our face-to-face communication...augmenting our discussions with imagery and links? Will we become less verbally coherent? Will conversation created 'from scratch' be relegated to more of a hobby/luxury status as we exchange recombinations of readily available floating data and imagery packets?
