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A number of themes continue to converge for me since the last post. Again, I apologize for the rambling assemblage of these thoughts - my aim is not to produce a polished work - but to just get some thoughts out. Eventually I hope to bring this series of posts together into a more coherent piece.
I had an interesting discussion with my son-in-law during a wonderful family Thanksgiving weekend (my daughter and he are making me a grandfather). We...
Friday, October 19, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
Collecting some more thoughts on identity in the digital environment
The
computer abolishes the human past by making it entirely present. It makes
natural and necessary a dialogue among cultures which is as intimate, as private
as speech.
McLuhan
-1968 - War & Peace in the Global Village p.90
This is a great quote from Marshall McLuhan, that is clearer today than when he wrote it. And I think in some ways it was also true when we invented language, then writing, the Gutenberg press, and now the digital...
