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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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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I just realized I retweeted this thread before you finished composing the thread. You totally could've gone in a different direction and I would've been oblivious. Lol
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TWTR, man. Not even once.
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Love “the frantic eternal present.” We all now have IADHD ... internet attention-deficit hyperlink disorder.
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Schools for working class to disappear. Replaced by app based virtual teaching.
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Hold on a minute. Let's talk about the alternative. Back before the internet mind--was there an ability, for whichever people matter in your comparison, to contextualize experience historically? If so, did it help practically?
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The last chapter of
@CKlosterman’s “But What If We’re Wrong” also explores the concept of the Internet creating an eternal present:https://www.amazon.com/But-What-If-Were-Wrong/dp/0399184139 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Were we ever that much better at that than we are now? It's always been a niche talent at best, IMHO.
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