a study finds that 60 million Americans don't care, don't want broadband, don't want to pay for it, and find the internet either offensive or dangerous.
so, for the FCC to "achieve US global leadership in high-speed Internet", they just need to build the infrastructure, then give to everyone it to everyone for free. its their choice if they don't want to get online.
Showing posts with label social culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social culture. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
the difficulty of putting thoughts down (or not)
damn, haven't blogged in a while. maybe the blog is largely dead.
ever since i started using a PC, my pencraft has completely deteriorated. i used to write prose and poetry with ink and paper. now i've done away with all of them (including the prose and poetry part).
blogging solved the itch to write somewhat, even if i was just doing it for myself (my comic blog has lots of funny gems - well, to me that is). but the volume of that does rival or exceed anything i wrote pre-computer era.
but at the same time, you run into the risk of not being able to put anything interesting (again, primarily to yourself) on your blog, with time considerations, and if it isn't your bread and butter. or you go into a funk and brood with writer's block.
recently, i've found myself reborn in a way with twitter, microblogging as much of my thoughts as i can. i had a great run tweeting inside an ER, and i was wondering if my friends were actually witnessing my death via the internet.
the loss of lengthy exposition, both in reading and writing, is pretty much the sign of the times. nothing much holds our attention span for so long, and we can't even write a decent email at times. i try to compensate by committing thoughts to the web, but even that requires you fire up the computer. in the last holdouts i see, my wife is fond of sending actual cards to family, even with just a few written words meant to connect somehow.
despite twitter's 140 character limit, i find myself not being hampered by it, and expanding my train of thoughts to several tweets. of course, this may be the issue with text messages, because you're actually paying for it, and thus are constrained to squeeze in as much info as you can in one message. which is crap because so much is lost in the message, you run the risk of being misunderstood, and also not to mention, you perpetuate the devolution of spelling, grammar and punctuation. i try not to fall into that trap with twitter.
perhaps soon we will just be down to communicating with mashed letters, numbers and symbols (u a$$!). the spoken word could devolve into grunting. oh, the irony.
ever since i started using a PC, my pencraft has completely deteriorated. i used to write prose and poetry with ink and paper. now i've done away with all of them (including the prose and poetry part).
blogging solved the itch to write somewhat, even if i was just doing it for myself (my comic blog has lots of funny gems - well, to me that is). but the volume of that does rival or exceed anything i wrote pre-computer era.
but at the same time, you run into the risk of not being able to put anything interesting (again, primarily to yourself) on your blog, with time considerations, and if it isn't your bread and butter. or you go into a funk and brood with writer's block.
recently, i've found myself reborn in a way with twitter, microblogging as much of my thoughts as i can. i had a great run tweeting inside an ER, and i was wondering if my friends were actually witnessing my death via the internet.
the loss of lengthy exposition, both in reading and writing, is pretty much the sign of the times. nothing much holds our attention span for so long, and we can't even write a decent email at times. i try to compensate by committing thoughts to the web, but even that requires you fire up the computer. in the last holdouts i see, my wife is fond of sending actual cards to family, even with just a few written words meant to connect somehow.
despite twitter's 140 character limit, i find myself not being hampered by it, and expanding my train of thoughts to several tweets. of course, this may be the issue with text messages, because you're actually paying for it, and thus are constrained to squeeze in as much info as you can in one message. which is crap because so much is lost in the message, you run the risk of being misunderstood, and also not to mention, you perpetuate the devolution of spelling, grammar and punctuation. i try not to fall into that trap with twitter.
perhaps soon we will just be down to communicating with mashed letters, numbers and symbols (u a$$!). the spoken word could devolve into grunting. oh, the irony.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
we should never be bored
i must be in the minority. i went out to see Wolverine, and i plan to go see Star Trek, but i haven't played any PS3 game in the last month or so. wow - that last sentence just blew me away.
with all the things we can do in this day and age, this generation should never be bored. fine, a lot of them are having their brains rot from sedentary activities (tell that to the gamers!), but my point is how come there are still people who commit crimes or get nutty socially-unproductive ideas out of sheer boredom?
or maybe my point is just trying to make up an excuse to go play video games. because i'm bored.
with all the things we can do in this day and age, this generation should never be bored. fine, a lot of them are having their brains rot from sedentary activities (tell that to the gamers!), but my point is how come there are still people who commit crimes or get nutty socially-unproductive ideas out of sheer boredom?
or maybe my point is just trying to make up an excuse to go play video games. because i'm bored.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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the world that's coming - more digital, less physical, according to readwriteweb.
reminds me of that Stephen Hawking episode in Family Guy.
[via NetLog]
reminds me of that Stephen Hawking episode in Family Guy.
[via NetLog]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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