Baron raises an interesting point in his article, where he tells of the changes to writing to preserve its validity. I thought it was rather funny that the monks in England who controlled the development of writing, used to create forgeries to seize possession of private land. Have any of you been witness/victim to forgeries? Anyhow, Baron then goes on to reiterate that in order to validate cyber text, we are going to have to develop a whole new system to serve such needs.
What would the new system look like? What range would would it extend over? And finally what texts in the future will be available when E-reserves have been outdated? Or will they ever be outdated?
I'll now transgress into a completely different tangent, and discuss what we were talking about in class on Tuesday about Society's role in the content of discourse and if there is certain conformity for comfort. (Side-note....I see snow on the peaks of the Bridgers!) Anyway, who decides what is appropriate or not? In the Greek era, there were public bathhouses and displays of public sexual intercouse, now we see a woman with too much cleavage on the sidewalk and we say tsk, tsk...Even now as wrote down about cleavage in my blog for class, I inwardly cringed at the perceived reaction of what people would think. Will girls be offended and think I used a sexist analogy? Will guys be completely distracted thinking about cleavage now? In all regards I shouldn't care the slightest of what peoples reactions should be, I didn't slander anyones name after all... Yet we are all still bound by an invisible shackle that puts a buffer on what is on our mind and what we share with others. Honestly now, how many of you would openly share the top 5 things going through your mind, no silly gimmicks, just straight honest truth....especially if I told you to think about Brad Pitt washing your car...interesting.
Also another interesting tidbit from Baron was his idea of the telephone's introduction intruding upon the privacy of our homes and now how our emails are filled with "spam." Even how there were debates of wether or not we should say "hello" and "good-bye" when beginning and ending a conversation. Now we have anonymous chat rooms hy bb whts goin on, personal dating sights Lisa matches 95% with you!, and even craigslist -wanted- Used toilet 0$, its amazing how the internet has seemingly broken some barriers of interacting with people outside of your town, outside of your state, and even outside of your country. I myself have a PenPal from England that I started writing too when I was in the 7th grade and we still keep in touch to this day. People talk about how technology is creating a barrier between people, raising digital walls that you can hide behind in the comfort and safety of your underwear and couch. But I will argue that point and say that while there are people affected by the sudden bouts of reclusion and isolation when interacting with the internet; there are also those who take advantage and find groups of people into similar interests, it allows easier opportunities to find out local events going on in the area and sign up for them, you can easily plan a trip with access to the internet. I believe the real problem is that most people get overwhelmed with the internet, even those who consider themselves computer savvy. It is ridiculously easy to be sucked into the cyberpool of information available at your fingerprints, but as humans have and always will do, they will adapt and speed processes up. We are a society of constant stimulus, our coffee line can never move fast enough, the person in front of you wont speed up, the professor is making you stay two minutes after class gets out....all daily excuses that I bet 100% of us have used more than once in a week. We want things now.
Very clever! The style of your post is a rhetorical device, I think... :) I especially like your insight about how people interact on the internet in contrast to how they act in person. I recently got a Twitter account and am surprised to see that many celebrities express their grief and pain online, but not in public verbal statements...does throwing our vulnerability out into the ether somehow give us a "voice" and make us feel heard by like-minded people? Very interesting. It does seem that the internet facilitates bouts of reclusion and isolation. But are these different than those we experience in real life? Is internet interaction somehow less genuine? I don't know!
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