Were we truly human before we had art, have the artists always been with us?This is the beginning of the world the cave painters imagined for themselves.
The cetacean life.
image saved to my hard drive copied from The New Yorker Magazine.
"what has god wrought"
we only thought we were isolated before now
I think we were always entangled
at some quantum level we are just begining to be aware of. I am sure the mystics saw it long ago.
Now we are born into an electronic womb that surrounds the earth and nurtures us, for good or ill.
Nice poem D
I am a shut in here in the afternoons
The heat and humidity
I need to pick my apples in the morning or the days is shot.
Only mad dogs and gringos go out in the afternoons.
I have to find the link, but some writer did an article about living on the net totally for a year, or maybe a month, I forget, but it was a long time without any face to face interaction
he never left his home
ordered everything he needed off the net
what a way to make a living
I think even wrote a book about it.
Interesting article by Sherry Turkle a professor at the MIT "Life on the Screen"
I will see if I can find that one too.
"Click"
Welcome to the future
"Oh what a brave new world"
Mousey wroteThe line "What hath God wrought!" is remembered today thanks as much to Samuel Morse as to Balaam. Having just invented the telegraph, Morse was searching for an appropriate first message when the daughter of a U.S. patent official suggested the biblical phrase. He sent it on May 24, 1844, humbling his own role while aggrandizing the invention. I don't know if other inventors have lifted the phrase, but we more often quote it now with fear or horror than reverence Perhaps we're just cynical about what technology has wrough
(emphasis mine)
http://www.gracecathedral.org/enrichmen ... 0901.shtml
Yes.It is odd I suppose that a patterning of words on a computer screen can reach so deep sometimes. Some rare wonderful times
