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I'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?
no subject
It feels close, just around the bend maybe.
Cells
"The cell phone is the part of the cell body that enables it to communicate with other cells." (imagined as a text-book caption explaining our species in the future under the microscope of another);)