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Don’t look for that photo of all the passengers on an early twentieth-century train reading a newspaper individually. The medium can create alienation (almost the definition of a medium), but there are also some exchanges that only it can facilitate. So what if you tie a computer to your face and don’t communicate with others? Charles Bukowski’s autobiographical novel Women:
I was born to be alone. Just live with a woman, eat together, sleep together, and go shopping together. I don’t need conversations, and I don’t go anywhere but horse races and boxing. I don’t understand the benefits of TV. I think it’s silly to pay to go to a movie theater to sit with other people and share emotions.
How many of today’s technology opinion leaders played Usenet and IRC in their early years? These things would not occupy the public imagination in those days, otherwise they would be accused of creating alienation and tearing apart the fabric of society.
We don’t need a new era Shuji Terayama telling us to “take off the headset and go to the streets”. Stay (xíng) hungry (wàn lǐ lù), stay (dú) foolish (wàn juàn shū).
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