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PP107 NetLog

Page history last edited by Jeff Wheetley 13 years, 6 months ago

 #1 Jeff's Net Log. Day's before have many memories we cannot change. YouTube plugin error  Those that lie ahead are gifts we can help become incredible. 

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I read the introduction of Mark Pegrum's From Blog's to Bomb. I think he is offering wise insight in trying to explain this digital/technological phenonomen. He knows it is a 'tidal wave' of such force it has to happen but not only should we make sure

we aren't crushed by it, as this power surge will have great dramatic impact, but that if we also see how in the scope of the bigger world

if we literally/figuratively can learn to surf with it we can better understand the ride and we see the wave's beauty and feel it's essence and then when it hits the shore the crash doesn't destroy us because we've learned all along and we understand it and how it is shaped and is a part of our collective creation. This is a proactive stance as there is no way to stuff the genie back into the bottle and we have the benefit of hind sight as we look back through the lenses of history to see how many excesses, both of liberal and conservative variants, gave great failure to our intended progress. Technology has greatly shaped our world before and we have benefitted and suffered. We have enjoyed the fruits- i.e. the internet itself is a marvel of our times,  yet are still affected and perhaps haunted
 by the repercussions of our ability to harness science and fundamentally change the world, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds',

J. Robert Oppenheimer. 

There isn't  single answer but if we collectively keep our mind's eye focused on the present maybe we can see a brilliant future.

             

Comments (1)

Vance Stevens said

at 10:27 am on Sep 25, 2010

Thanks for the commemoration of Sept 11, and for relating it to one of the readings in the course. I hope to find more about our course content here shortly :-)

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