Where are we going? To what star?

Dear John and Participants,

I would be very interested in hearing what people think about the real potentials of internet communication and where is could possibly go. John wrote: That's all fine by me. A discussion will develop and mature as long as people continue posting. A number of interesting discussions got started here, yet they tend to fade after a while. Why might that be?

Is this all we can do in cyber space begin discussions that soon fade out into nothingness? Is this the sum total of our projections into space? Are people interested in going further or is this fading out just a reflection of our natural instincts to remain mainly separate and alone each the king of his own castle.

Cyber communication is commumication but where people want to go seems important and where we think we can go either a limitation or a fuel for a new journey.

If we do not go somewhere we will get tired of this game eventually and it will put us to sleep.

Don't see much activity on this list at this point John maybe learning now has to be done in some other forum. What is you highest dream or vision for virtual communication? I see that you went far and deep into your studies and have explored the very structure of cyber communication but agian the question keeps coming up are we really going to go anywhere with it or will it largely remain on the level of social masterbation. Seem like many people are using it just for that. We get the popularity of sexual sites for red level masterbation and chat rooms and 2D or 3D virtual realities for orange level or social masterbation. And we have yellow level of intellectual masterbation when people just talk endlessly about things trying as hard as they can to keep themselves as separate as they can from the ideas they are talking about. Almost like talking machines. I guess this also included blue or conceptual masterbation as well the sharing if ideas and concepts with that same tendency to keep those very ideas separate from who we really are. The green level security center of emotional love center is certainly getting some air time in virtual spaces with romance and falling in and out of love the preocupation of many.

Is there anything beyond all of this? Is there anything more? We are just starting our virtual journeys and the digital age has just begun. But humans and their tendencies have been around a long time and habits die hard. Will some of those habits change now? Is virtual communication with all of its new openings strong enough to help break people loose from some of their old shop warn habits.

Just some thoughts for an early Sunday morning.

Robin Sircus

Replies:

where it's going, by John, 12/7/98 The Net Certainly Is Going Somewhere, by Robin Sircus, 12/12/98 re: going somewhere, by John, 12/13/98

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