25/08/2007

e-ttenuation of life


«Teenagers communicating by mobile phones and texts and chat rooms and webcams still seem more like teenagers than nodes in an electronic network. I have to admit a little concern at what we might call the e-ttenuation of life, whereby people find it increasingly difficulty to be here now rather than dissipating themselves into an endless electronic elsewhere», leio, escrito por Ray Tallis, no Philosophy Now, aqui e lembro-me do meu velho Apple, o écran monocromático, as suas disquetes enormes e moles, a alegria infinita de esperar por aquele MS-DOS. Mordido o fruto proibido, digitalizei-me irreversivel e binariamente, a minha cabeça como a álgebra booleana.