Category Archives: bubble

post-information age

By txt | Published: July 12, 2001

Thanks >The enormous amounts of information available to us all thanks to the Net >is a wonderful thing, it is not a problem. It is how we deal with the >anxiety it can create that can be a problem. Perhaps the cure for >information obesity is simply a sensible diet… Perhaps we are entering a [...]

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uninstuctive thinker

By txt | Published: July 10, 2001

I have a few thoughts on email lists, and email, and information, and too much of all the above. I wonder just how ‘democratic’ the world will become when everyone has email and everyone can publish? If everyone talks at once, then no one can hear. There are already too many books, too many web [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 24, 1999

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 24, 1999

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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Nerds on TV tonight

By txt | Published: August 5, 1999

>Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History Of The Internet : Connecting The Suits Part 2 >Bob Cringely trains his well-informed eye on the intriguing history of the >Internet from its birth deep in the Pentagon to the cutting edge of the >World Wide Web today. Not sure if you actually saw this show, but I would [...]

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Calling a cave VR

By txt | Published: August 4, 1999

>existence is based upon perception and >imagination,the receptive and active modes of our reality, intertwined >both consciously and subconsciously.. Relativism…very 60s. Gnosticism…Perhaps VR is the return of Jesus Christ. It is good to see religious studies back on the curriculum after a 50 year hiatus.

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Calling a cave VR

By txt | Published: August 3, 1999

What I see as one of the great problems when discussing VR or other ephemeral terms such as interactive or ‘cyber’ or ‘multi’ or other computer-mediated expressions is that often the hermeneutic apparatus used to describe them is often little more than a wish list or projections. The potential for VR is huge, but the [...]

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Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates..

By txt | Published: July 12, 1999

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:30:36 AM Subject: Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== Dear Fellow Un-evolved Rock Apes, Of course factions of the web community think that the web is ‘the natural evolution of human knowledge”…they get paid for it and they have a great investment in convincing the public that [...]

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