That’s The Problem.
I will have more to say about this when I’m not about to start a 24-hour flight around more than half the world, but I just want to nail down this quote from Clay Shirky talking about Iran/Twitter/etc:
Absolutely. I’ve been saying this for a while — as a medium gets faster, it gets more emotional. We feel faster than we think.
Correct. And in some cases that’s a fine thing. In lots and lots of other cases, though, that’s the problem. In many, many cases it is essential that we learn to engage our damn brains before our emotions get involved to the points that it becomes nigh impossibly difficult to do so.
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Lachlan O’Dea
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Richard B.
June 20th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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