subtle preferences

• Hello! A Few Observations by Doug William, Ph.D., 3/23/98
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    • re:subtleties by John Suler, 3/30/98
      
      

John Suler types:
It makes for an interesting intellectual debate about whether the richness of online communication matches that of f2f encounters. But the bottomline for me is this: I would NEVER be happy or feel fulfilled if I could ONLY be with my wife, children, or closest friends online. There might be some interesting aspects of being with them online, but it never could substitute for being with them in-person...

To me, that says a lot about cyberspace.

I'd say that we each have our preferences... Some people like music, others like books... still others like full-contact sports. With only a few exceptions, we've all grown up with a (largely) full-sensory world. I also tend to speculate on how much of our thought processes we model after media... I often find myself thinking of memories as "movies" or cinematic montages... and after a few years of working on the web, I often dream in HTML (strange but true). It will be interesting to see what preferences develop among the younger kids who are now growing up with ascii cyber-experiences.

Phil
Phil's recurring dream

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