I’ve been thinking that, while the articles I write for TA are great and should continue to be a pillar of the site, shorter and more pithy posts are also worthy content. Also, I do a crappy job of interacting with other blog posts. So here’s something I saw whilst plowing1 through my blog posts today: expect more.
“As I was working out in the garden today, my first thought was that as a society, we still haven’t figured out how to manage the intersection of mortality and migration.”
(from Easily Distracted.)
I think this is an incredibly well put observation. The internet, and aviation, make the world smaller in a lot of important ways, but it’s still a big place that most of us find difficult to move from place to place. As a developmentalist-to-be this is right up my ally and I think a quite interesting location for some interesting research some day. Very quickly though, my next thought is of a few science fiction books that deal with some of these issues. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, address the migration issue (among other things), and Cory Doctrow’s Eastern Standard Tribe looks at the effect of the internet (and “world shrinking”) on another “material reality:” sleep. Interesting stuff.
Discuss!
Cheers, tycho
In fairness, I think my method of weblog reading as described by the word “plow,” might account for my lack of communication.
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