NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlaziusF" data-source="post: 4504457" data-attributes="member: 74166">Yeah, the problem with elegance is that it only works if everybody can see the wires. Anyway."Small Pieces Loosely Joined" is a rather seminal work about the sociology of the Internet, and how cultures that have relied on face-to-face interaction for thousands of years are somehow moving fairly seamlessly over to using the Internet, which is ultimately just a bunch of dots on a screen.Given that everyone here is posting on an Internet message board and not going, say, psychopathic from exposure to such an alien social experience suggests that there's something more to human interaction than just two people standing face to face. (And if you have multiple browsers or multiple tabs open, sweet Jesus son you are in many places at the same time. Even though you can only manage serial attention, you can keep up a decent parallel presence because humans are also really good at saving stories for later, as evidenced by, uh, every serial novel ever.)Heidegger addressed these questions in "Being And Time" as technology began to transform Germany, converting the world into "resources". So as technological progress goes "boink" and suddenly there's this YouTube thing, the stuff he had to say about the nature of existence becomes even more pertinent than it was back in the day.Hitler quoting him doesn't magically invalidate him, any more than Hitler quoting the German microbiologist Henle Koch magically invalidates his work on developing the germ theory of disease.</blockquote>

Verification