Reading: Is the Web Helping Us Evolve?

This was another not-so-easy-to-read reading, but I got through it. The same debate, just perhaps a different point-of-view. Of course the Web is helping us to evolve. That's what we do - EVOLVE. Is it scary? For some of us , yes; others, not so much - probably more exciting. For me, I don't take to change very well, it takes me awhile. I'm still resisting getting an I-Phone (I use that term loosely, much like the term Q-tip). I really don't feel the need to be available to everyone all of the time; its good to be unavailable sometimes. Anyway, back to the subject, like before, I can see and agree with both sides of the argument. There are pros and cons to EVERYTHING. Most things that were invented/discovered, were discovered through many trials and errors (i.e. the light bulb). There have been great advances in the world, but I think the more important question is: Is evolution always a good thing? Perhaps those who believe that we've evolved from monkeys, I guess that would be a big Y E S. I believe time will tell . . .

The Medium Is The Message

The light as medium reminds me of color. Without light there is no color. To the average person, color is color; whether there is light or not never crosses their mind.

If you're anything like me, I had to look a few things up: Somnambulism - sleepwalking; Narcissus - Greek Mythology, known for having fallen in love with his own reflection . . . "What you seek is nowhere; but turn yourself away, and the object of your love will be no more. That which you behold is but the shadow of a reflected form and has no substance of its own. With you it comes, with you it gostays, and it will go with you . . ." (Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.433)

Also, not quite sure I'm understanding the whole "lack of sequence" regarding the electric light. Sure there's a sequence or causality - just quicker. You have to turn a switch on or plug the cord into an outlet that will make something come on. I dunno, could be I've missed the whole point.

from page 12:

"That one thing follows another accounts for nothing. Nothing follows from the following, except change." --- can it get anymore confusing???

"If it works, it's obsolete." HUH????

from page 16:

"Accelerated media change as a kind of massacre of the innocents." --- I agree.

I'm very new at blogging, so if I wrote too much - sorry. :P

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1st Day in Digital Media Culture

Okay, so here I am. . . creating my very first blog. Yay for me. :)