the real dangers of the virtual life
the real dangers of the virtual life becoming rosencrantz and guildenstern and losing our way EL GATO MALO i recently came upon this tweet about the increasing prevalence of a sort of basic functional incomprehension and found it thought provoking. i think this idea can be extended and provide some useful insight into just how things get so out of control. first off, take a read. pay particular attention to the part about a previously unknown sort of ignorance. there’s going to be a quiz. leaving aside this baseless calumny against 10 year olds (as all the 10 year olds i knew could have given you chapter and verse on juptier and the milky way), this is a really interesting set of nested takes and it got me to thinking: indeed, much of childhood as i recall it was experiential. it lay in picking things up, interacting with them, exploring, climbing, riding, falling. it was all a bit of a mess, but it was an interactive mess full of stuff to figure out, games to invent, daily proto-soc