Language is full of interesting legacy issues. The pocket supercomputer I'm writing this on isn't really a "phone" or a "mobile"
But ease of communication vastly supercedes semantic accuracy. Accurate terms only stick if carried through a Trojan horse of convenience
Also when sth becomes ubiquitous, it becomes invisible. The Information Superhighway is no longer a commute. We're everywhere, all at once.
Cyberspace used to be something you escaped to, with eerie glowing screens in a dark room. Now we all carry it with us. Escaping meatspace.
Imagine The Matrix with the characters using smartphones when outside the Matrix. "Plugged in" is a quaint term, shows limit of imagination
Was reading a Kindle ytd. Really quite a mindfuck. I COULD really get rid of 95% of my books. Turn my study into a gym. Or meditation room.
Here is where I think conversations about new things get waylaid. New options give us new landscapes, new configurations of adjacent reality
I guess that's just my roundabout way of realizing that creative-destruction is far more creative and far more destructive than we recognize
Like, to an ungodly degree. To a "shit, nobody should bother reading the news" degree. The news tries to domesticate time and tide.
In a sense the media is a sort of moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact
To be fair, the media's body of work is still useful in many ways for many reasons. But it's like sugar in an information-diet. Do not OD
A good information diet is grounded in a generous helping of first principles. And you gotta "cook" "raw meat" with rigorous anti-bias tools
I'm probably wrong or nonsensical about most of what I've been tweeting, but I like trying anyway. Eventually things click. Ok, commute over
