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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
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a digital mode of life
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August 18, 2007
From William J. Mitchell's E-Topia:
Once, we had to go places to do things; we went to work, we went home, we went to the theater, we went to conferences, we went to the local bar-and sometimes we just went out. Now we have pipes for bits-high-capacity digital networks to deliver information whenever and wherever we want it. These allow us to do many things without going anywhere. So the old gathering places no longer attract us. Organizations fragment and disperse. Urban centers cannot hold. Public life seems to be slipping away.
I actually want to connect to a wireless network as I move through different cities, living a nomadic postmodern existence, with its fragmented identities. I yearn for a wireless networked city It's technologically possible, but it is happening slowly in Australia. Yet our lives are increasingly being on the move.
Mitchell says:
Maybe homes and workplaces, transportation systems, and the emerging digital telecommunications infrastructure can be reconnected and reorganized to create fresh urban relationships, processes, and patterns that have the social and cultural qualities we seek for the twenty-first century. Maybe there's another way-a graceful, sustainable, and liberating one. Two tentative cheers for the global village!
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| | Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 12:10 AM | Permalink |
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