Comments on: In the Age of Twitter, an Idle Mind Has Never Been More Important http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/2009/04/10/the-age-of-twitter/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:41:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mct http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/2009/04/10/the-age-of-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-2789 mct Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:58:19 +0000 http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/?p=293#comment-2789 The future is all goggles all the time anyway, with real-time eye-beams and personal const-casting. We can fight it but there will always be parts of it we crave. I figure it's all about keeping services and their usefulness small enough that we can conceive of them simply (while holding them in our brains as manageable ideas), and ignore the troubling shit on the outskirts. But anyway I do worry that I am living a less genuine life than my grandparents. The future is all goggles all the time anyway, with real-time eye-beams and personal const-casting. We can fight it but there will always be parts of it we crave. I figure it’s all about keeping services and their usefulness small enough that we can conceive of them simply (while holding them in our brains as manageable ideas), and ignore the troubling shit on the outskirts.

But anyway I do worry that I am living a less genuine life than my grandparents.

]]> By: Randy Souther http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/2009/04/10/the-age-of-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-2617 Randy Souther Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:47:16 +0000 http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/?p=293#comment-2617 Is this the technology version of Nature vs Nurture? Does technology change us, or do we gravitate toward the technology that mirrors who we already are? I suspect the 100-tweets-a-day guy is NOW at peace after finding a tool that matches his thinking. Is this the technology version of Nature vs Nurture? Does technology change us, or do we gravitate toward the technology that mirrors who we already are? I suspect the 100-tweets-a-day guy is NOW at peace after finding a tool that matches his thinking.

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