Dr.
Andrew Wood Office: HGH 210; phone: (408) 924-5378 Andrew.Wood@sjsu.edu |
|
|
|
"[T]he
children of the Internet are Romantics, for they perpetually wish to be
someplace else, and the laptop reliably helps take them there — if only
in imagination. The e-mailer, the instant messenger, the Web browser
are all dispersing their energies and interests outward, away from the
present, the here and now. The Internet user is constantly connecting
with people and institutions far away, creating surrogate communities
that displace the potential community at hand . . . The Internet is
perhaps the most centrifugal technology ever devised. The classroom,
where you sit down in one space at one time and ponder a text or an
issue in slow motion, is coming to feel ever more antiquated. What's at
a premium now is movement, making connections, getting all the
circuitry fizzing and popping."
- Mark Edmundson, "Dwelling in possibilites"
|
|