Mind's Eye Re: Tired With the Intenet

I think we can do it, if we unplug the story line from politics and economics.  Have they changed since the beginning of written history?  Not much.

On Saturday, April 12, 2014 4:36:21 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote:

I think I'm disappointed because we haven't dislodged the old interest groups much.  I hoped politics would become more global in a good way, give us an honest and open financial system, get rid of our very silly economic system - you know, all those small things we regulars in here over the years would achieve if we rode out as the magnificent seven.

I'd like to see a new form of debate in which politicians were instantly challenged by facts.  And to be able to tune myself into the machine to learn relativity as Einstein did.  You know, the simple things of life like cemetery management with Gabbs.  A new collaborative form of literature.  

On Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:50:38 UTC+1, archytas wrote:

Mt first real use of the internet was searching for academic papers.  Back then you probably had to get hard copy via inter-library loan to actually be able to read them.  The ability to search was the great advance.  Physically browsing whatever your university had in stock was always rather difficult.  It's much easier now, though outside science, this has only increased my feeling the academy is a redundant organ.  The good thing about being at university was it increased your chances of being with people who might be interested in something other than gossip, small talk and fuck-buddying.  I said ' increased your chances' - universities are full of trivial behaviour and mass match-making.

I rather hoped the internet would be a place to escape the trivial and be a place for dialogue of the authentic, sincere, comedic and speculative.  I believed this possible because we could search each other out.  Currently I feel it is better than main media, but then so is walking the dog.  Most of my online time is spent in intranets, usually tutoring or searching databases of knowledge or institutional facts (stats usually).    The internet as I'd like to see it doesn't seem to be happening.  Quite a lot of the other stuff I do on lone is illegal, like watching films to discover they weren't worth buying in the first place, or watching television without adverts or promos.  I can still see potential, but the changes I'd hoped for just haven't materialised.  How's everyone else feeling?

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