Re: A Very Peculiar Kind of Social Congress

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 19:03:24 MST


> So the web can paradoxically enhance our ability to communicate *and*
> further isolate us. The real danger, it seems to me, is in believing
that
> it can only do one or the other."
>
> Jim F.

What the web adds to our ability to communicate, it subtracts from our
capability to commune; and although it further isolates us, it also
assimilates us with interest groups and mailing lists. No paradox... just
more complexity in the adaptive systems of human relations.

τΏτ

Stay hungry,

--J. R.

Useless hypotheses: consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind,
free will
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