Kevin wrote:
>
> The obvious example is TV news. They have graphs,
pie
> charts, flying pie charts, maps, sky cams, magic
pointers, etc.,
> etc... and yet they're actually telling us less and
less.
Whoa. I got hit in the face once by a flying pie chart.
In fairness to Mark, while I favour continuing to use the old
habits I already have, there's considerable evidence that
newer technologies and skills like manipulating emoticons do
get picked up for their own sakes, or sometimes just so the
old farts won't know what you're up to. If expanding the
reach of the list to a bigger, and probably younger
demographic is deemed worthy, changing the medium might be
one way to go about it.
Or we could just carry blythly on in our own, increasingly
irrelevant world. That's my preference. I like the idea of
technology fragmenting communications, communities of
interest spiralling out into hyperspace until the next big
bang when the centre entirely loses its grip.
Wishing us all a delightfully dark and even more chaotic
future, Kerry
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