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Thursday, February 12, 2004
New meme: Erectability 
Making tracks
Submerging technologists
| | I missed Allan Karl yesterday at eTech. So I couldn't save my friends (most in the Orkut sense of the word) from his dispassionate report on their often subconvivial social ways. His penultimate conclusion: |
| | So while technology emerges and those passionate about topics discussed at this conference or others I wonder if interpersonal communication is devolving to the tools of technology regardless of physical presence? Will eye contact, body language and tactile or sensual experiences such as handshakes, hugs and tongue in cheek jabs on shoulders disappear? Or can we learn to balance our lives without compromising technology or our ability to communicate and experience the real (dare I say) off line world? |
| | Speaking of Orkut, Rael Dornfest cracked people up one evening by walking from one person to another and yelling, YOU ARE MY FRIEND! YES OR NO? Which is roughly the Orkut "new connections" protocol. |
| | So maybe Allan's right. We are Devo. |
| | Sorry I missed him. I was in meetings, actually talking to people, most of the day — and unreachable by cell since AT&T Wireless has no service in most of the meeting areas. |
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