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The computer today is exploding open raw and deep areas of the brain/: (increasingly primordial shifts in behaviour!).  Socialization rules! - privacy and just being alone is such a difficult thing to have in today's world.  We see nominal flecks of meaning in our environments, especially in the form of distractions and interruptions.  I see these fairly annoying daily "punctuations" the early signs of a growing network and an increasing oneness that demands an end to working & being alone.  The number of distractions in  the world today are phenomenal.  When the Industrial Revolution hit England in the 1800's, I remember reading Wordsworth (I think) complaining about the increasing number of distractions in the town he lived.

This was in the 1800's?!  What would he think of today??

Today, what stands out to me are the auditory stops -like car horns, ambulances, telephones, cellphones - /: or it can be friends logging on to their computers and needing to dialoque with you in one of its many forms (Skype, texting, webcams, email, etc.)  These distractions will only escalate in the future because the technologies harvesting our crop of over-socialized beings will, themselves, become more invasive.  The problem is, with the increasing  socialization, I wonder how much work will get done, as it seems that isolation used to be a principal requirement of most people - especially scientists and artists who need long hours of thought to express themselves- to get their work done.

I think we need to find ways of thinking together, and I really don't think the solutions will be very expected - for all I know the future might look like something out of Spielburg's "Minority Report' (adapted from a work by Philip K. Dick), with the centrally-placed, hot- tub-floating psychics/muses -(the future employment of ourartists, philosophers, psychics?) offering up inchoate solutions to problems that others in more managerial positions will farm out to the doers, the enactors. Of couse, I'm no Philip K. Dick, but this kind of "socialized-work" will probably have to be developed one of these days, when we get over our old hang-ups about what is work and find a means to having our work done by synchronizing the individual and the group in the hopes of solving yet another problem.

Black Swan

Let me say right off - when I heard this movie was coming out, I immediately thought of that recent bestselling book, "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.  I got a fair ways into the book until Talib essentially started talking about - yada yada-  how smart he is -there's a passage where he describes walking with a friend through a park, and being so caught up in their intellectual dialogue, they didn't notice it was pouring rain down on them. While absent-mindedness has a history with the intelligent - e.g. Isaac Newton himself, when once asked if he'd had lunch yet, answered that he didn't know (maybe earlier that day another falling apple had knocked him on the head).  There was  the meeting between the poet Robert Southey  and Alfred Lord Tennyson (a bit of a space cadet) where Tennyson directly asked Southey what he thought of Southey.  Those last two examples, in my mind, are endearing because they highlight a weakness in the two men. Tasib highlights strength - his intellect - and thus repels me. If he had gotten in a minor accident, such as getting hit unwittingly by a rickshaw or falling into a pond, or getting hit by lightning I might think of his book less negatively.  But what do I know?