Sunday
Oct022005
The Internet is my life
I have a paper due this tuesday over Steven Johnson's book Everything bad is good for you, and my destitute situation is doing nothing but further convince me my hair-brained ideas are right. Right now I feel rather disconnected from the world. And while i believe that there is more to life than refreshing digg.com every 5 minutes, I am unable to reach or be reached by my friends. Cell phones? I'm sorry, but I keep mine on silence, gruggingly answering for those elders of mine who are convinced this audio communication over POTS is the wave of the future (btw; hi mom!). Most of my friends know the easiest way to get my attention is to send me a message either through various IM protocols, Email, or even our mutual social networking sites. phones... are so 20th century it physically hurts and annoys (the annoying part, at least) when I have to answer it.
The internet is no longer a Luxury for the 20 somethings of the world. The physical world is becoming more integrated into the digital one, in ways maybe the author of Neuromancer saw many moons ago. I recall an episode of Rocketboom (rocketboom.com) about Second Life, an MMO (massive multiplayer online) game where a lady basically works in the MMO, she sells clothing she herself makes. I'm gonna give you a few pagebreaks to think about that.
This lady can sustain herself in this world by doing work and creating digital objects in a game. For her, the internet and this world are an integral web. She can't afford to have her internet disconnected for almost a week (damn you EagleCom!), it'd be the equivalent of telling my manager I can't come in, my car broke down. Things like that, and the IPTV show Pure Pwnage leave me yearning for a way to integrate more fully (english be damned!) the disparate parts of my life in such a convenient fashion. Of course, it'd be nice not to have to drive to work every night. Maybe if I could advance the technologies of remote hunting (go Texas) and Night Auditing, I could telecommute to work. I'll keep dreaming. For now, Tweakiegeek Signing out.
The internet is no longer a Luxury for the 20 somethings of the world. The physical world is becoming more integrated into the digital one, in ways maybe the author of Neuromancer saw many moons ago. I recall an episode of Rocketboom (rocketboom.com) about Second Life, an MMO (massive multiplayer online) game where a lady basically works in the MMO, she sells clothing she herself makes. I'm gonna give you a few pagebreaks to think about that.
This lady can sustain herself in this world by doing work and creating digital objects in a game. For her, the internet and this world are an integral web. She can't afford to have her internet disconnected for almost a week (damn you EagleCom!), it'd be the equivalent of telling my manager I can't come in, my car broke down. Things like that, and the IPTV show Pure Pwnage leave me yearning for a way to integrate more fully (english be damned!) the disparate parts of my life in such a convenient fashion. Of course, it'd be nice not to have to drive to work every night. Maybe if I could advance the technologies of remote hunting (go Texas) and Night Auditing, I could telecommute to work. I'll keep dreaming. For now, Tweakiegeek Signing out.
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Chris
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