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June 27, 2005

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In search of community?

Sure, we all know this now, right?

We are natural villagers. For most of mankind’s history we have lived in very small communities in which we knew everybody and everybody knew us. But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing.
Interactivity. Many-to-many communications. Pervasive networking. These are cumbersome new terms for elements in our lives so fundamental that, before we lost them, we didn’t even know to have names for them.
Read “,” by (1999).

Posted at 2:24 pm

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Comments (2):
Excelent post! I enjoyed many parts of it. This one has to go in my quotation file:

What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make.

wheat () (URL) - June 28, 2005 at 07:16 am

Hehe… That is a great one,Wheat. Too true.

timsamoff () (URL) - June 28, 2005 at 07:43 am

  
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