2 hours before 4th class and spanking out my 2nd blog
Sooo last class we spent a lot of time talking about time and how humanity responds to it since it is our inevitable fate to grow old, have young people think you suck and smell bad, and then die. First of all, young people, when I was your age we respected our elders…or stuck it to them because they were the man. One of those. Anywho, the greatest revenge for old people is when arrogant young whippersnappers themselves pass through the threshold of youth and into their golden years. Which in itself is a weird term. “Golden years”: When you have to take pills everyday to hang on for a few more years and all your friends start dying. Depressing. Gray years. Dammit. Moving on…
Yes, we talked about the problem with time. Our society is built on thousands of years worth of information that has been passed on through writing, song and interpretive. More recently, we have hung up our tap shoes and pens in favor of bowing down in glory to the internet: man’s fanciest new way of storing information. Through this we also talked about how many specializations there are and how because of this, even with something like the internet, communication is dwindling between people, as they are less likely to talk to someone from another specialty. This goes back to the previous class where we talked about how human innovation moves forward when the creative and the logic intertwine.
Somewhere along this line we started talking about how we (mankind) would be able to create something to take the internet to the next level of where Engelbart believes it should be right now. Seeing as, from Dr. C’s comments, Engelbart seemed disappointed by the internet and how flooded it is with…how should I say….crap, the idea of creation from destruction popped into my head. I can’t take that any further just yet, but I thought it might be interesting if there were someway to blow up the internet and build it right. Filter out the BS and all that.