An A.S.A.P. Choke of the Electric Eel

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.