Comments on: What do we know without the Internet? http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2005/02/what_do_we_know.html Personal weblog for James Christopher Hardie Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chris Hardie's Weblog http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2005/02/what_do_we_know.html#comment-79605 Chris Hardie's Weblog Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:33:55 +0000 http://www.chrishardie.com/wordpress/2005/02/what-do-we-know-without-the-internet.html#comment-79605 <strong>For More Information, Visit Us on the Web</strong> Perhaps one of my biggest concerns about working in the Internet industry and website development in particular is my participation in a cultural shift whereby people are now not only just able but clearly expected to look for and find online the infor... For More Information, Visit Us on the Web

Perhaps one of my biggest concerns about working in the Internet industry and website development in particular is my participation in a cultural shift whereby people are now not only just able but clearly expected to look for and find online the infor...

]]> By: joe http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2005/02/what_do_we_know.html#comment-30 joe Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.chrishardie.com/wordpress/2005/02/what-do-we-know-without-the-internet.html#comment-30 Another interesting thing about the internet is how it facilitates contact among people that would otherwise be really difficult and unlikely. Admittedly, not everyone maintains a persistent 'web presence' to make themselves easily findable, but I think more and more people are doing so as time goes on. (E.g., I found my old friend and bassist extraordinaire Dan Abbott a few months back through the use of Anywho.com.) I do think people risk losing some humanity, or at least some self-sufficiency, if we count on technology to solve all our problems for us... but the problem of losing track of Dan wasn't one that I knew technology would help solve. (I was still a web-illiterate AOL subscriber when he and I both flamed-out of Earlham.) Similarly, if you're going blame technology for your unpreparedness in the face of a severe candle accident, you'll have to blame Edison's light bulb before you go pointing (waxy) fingers at Google. Anyway, I'm grateful to be able to just browse in here and see how things are going with you. Say hi to Damon, if he remembers me -- you can jog his memory with the factoid that his dare, one night in Barrett, was what prompted me to shave my head for the first time. Another interesting thing about the internet is how it facilitates contact among people that would otherwise be really difficult and unlikely. Admittedly, not everyone maintains a persistent 'web presence' to make themselves easily findable, but I think more and more people are doing so as time goes on. (E.g., I found my old friend and bassist extraordinaire Dan Abbott a few months back through the use of Anywho.com.) I do think people risk losing some humanity, or at least some self-sufficiency, if we count on technology to solve all our problems for us... but the problem of losing track of Dan wasn't one that I knew technology would help solve. (I was still a web-illiterate AOL subscriber when he and I both flamed-out of Earlham.) Similarly, if you're going blame technology for your unpreparedness in the face of a severe candle accident, you'll have to blame Edison's light bulb before you go pointing (waxy) fingers at Google.
Anyway, I'm grateful to be able to just browse in here and see how things are going with you. Say hi to Damon, if he remembers me -- you can jog his memory with the factoid that his dare, one night in Barrett, was what prompted me to shave my head for the first time.

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