We see the Internet all separately, because we're living through it, but centuries from now our descendants will label it with some catch-all, and compress the timeframe (as we do with 'printing press'....there were 70 years between Gutenberg and Luther, for example).
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We are living through a historical pivot that future schoolchildren (assuming there are schoolchildren) will study. Ironically, one of the casualties of Internet mind is the inability to think beyond the frantic eternal present, and contextualize our experience historically.
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Thus do we teeter on the knife's edge of the next FB or TWTR notification, and the next tragic news item, not realizing how the very medium that's become so pervasive as to be invisible has warped the very way we think about the world. More in my next
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