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DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:57:01 pm
ah, nm then
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:58:07 pm
red chamber dream
think one thing is just that it's not always fun to have all information i need available to me all the time
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:58:39 pm
red chamber dream
or not fun but you know what i mean - information has less value or something
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:59:42 pm
erosion of wonder?
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:59:54 pm
red chamber dream
yeah there you go
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:00:29 pm
red chamber dream
also like when you're talking to people and you don't know something and they're like well just google it
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:00:50 pm
red chamber dream
rather than maybe having a conversation about it
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 06:01:04 pm
yeah I know what you mean
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:02:28 pm
red chamber dream
i also don't get excited about buying a new album anymore ... i just download it and add it to my massive collection that i will never have time to listen to

i know that one's my fault though and tbh i wouldn't have it any other way, but you know
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:03:21 pm
red chamber dream
times changing i guess, happens to everyone
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 06:04:20 pm
yeah I'm sure there were people having a similar conversation when the gramophone was invented, or the telephone, or the aeroplane
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:05:38 pm
red chamber dream
yeah but i do think the internet is significantly different from those, probably the biggest change since electricity became common in homes
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2012-01-03 06:06:17 pm
I like turtles.
Took a class on this last semester.  We had some interesting discussions that ultimately proved to be little more than vague philosophizing.  Is the Internet going to do away with individuality, the worth of information, etc.

My stance is basically "only if you let it!"
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:07:43 pm
red chamber dream
yeah heh i don't really like to get philosophical because it's hard to say how something that affects me will affect others, but it's definitley been a mindfuck over the past year or so in larger ways for me
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 06:11:26 pm
I mean I should have a different perspective being a bit older and not really having had internet access at home until I was ... 22 or so?
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 06:12:12 pm
but yeah I dunno, it was like the internet arrived after my childhood was over so I grew up "normally" if you want to put it that way
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:13:04 pm
red chamber dream
go my age

don't think i used the internet till i was 9-10 ... should ask my parents sometime. first browser i used was netscape to give a time frame
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:13:49 pm
red chamber dream
what really fucks with me is that kids are being born now and will never know anything else

i sound like an old man talking about the telephone or whatever but it is pretty weird
arkarian
2012-01-03 06:14:43 pm
red chamber dream
consider myself very lucky to have been born in the 80s
kesvalk
2012-01-03 08:21:22 pm
Indie Lover
nah, without internet we wouldn't had things like the Egyptian rebelion and no one would not even know some really nasty laws the internet helped to block...

of course Einstein made the relativity law thinking about ppl using it for the good of humanity, and humanity made the A-bomb with it...

TL:DR, it don't matter if you made something good, someone will find a way to fuck ppl up with it...
tomatobob
2012-01-03 08:26:15 pm
One shall stand, one shall ball.
No rebellions against terrible governments have ever occurred before the internet came to be. True fact.
kesvalk
2012-01-03 08:30:10 pm
Indie Lover
you can't say that it didn't helped it though
tomatobob
2012-01-03 08:42:13 pm
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Sure, it was a resource people used, it has value. But given that the government could, and I believe actually did, shut it down and various uprising throughout history it was hardly vital.
TheOthin
2012-01-03 10:18:38 pm
Shutting down the internet couldn't stop the Egyptian revolution once it had started. But would it have started and gotten big in the first place without the internet? Perhaps not, at least not yet. Sometimes people rebel against terrible governments... sometimes they don't. And the internet can help to facilitate that process in many ways.