communication. community. cognition.
I Kant understands teh Intarwebs.
And it has nothing to do with the ridiculous spelling, whether it’s the LOLcats feigned ignorance, or the intentional crop-and-drop of letters. (I’m looking at you, Flickr and Tumblr.)
The mystery is in the origin of our online etiquette and morality.
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…Ike Pigott.
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It’s alright to have a high-minded concept now and again.
It’s also okay to be occasionally right.
But is it okay to be right for the wrong reasons?
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Often, big thoughts emerge from small coincidences. Interesting thoughts blossom when fed by two divergent influences, the intersections.
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Quality is a hard thing to wrangle. (Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was an attempt to figure it out.)
We know it when we see it, but getting from A to G either takes a leap of faith, or relies on assumptions we never truly examine.
So I am challenging them. [Read more...]
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Ain’t technology grand?
It’s great that I can tap into networks of really smart people with relevant knowledge and skills.
I can’t tell you how awesome it is that other professions have embraced the ability to break the barriers of time and space to collaborate.
It can’t help but make us smarter, or at least more confident we can access faster answers with a greater degree of success.
We’re not talking Wikipedia here, we’re talking about top experts bouncing ideas off each other.
It’s exciting, but after seeing a couple of recent articles, I’m both scared and relieved. [Read more...]
