So.... some people might be wondering what's changed? Is she back on crack or just off the crack? Neither of these realities is true. I read a book. Amazing I know. But one does resort to reading once in a while... anywaaaay what the book made me consider is the responsible use of technology in terms of our responsibility to maintain humanity through technology. If you're interested, the book is "You are not a gadget" by Jaron Lanier and I highly, highly recommend it to you. It offers some really wonderful insights into why we are human and why a machine is a machine and even though we have to operate within the confines of what machinery offers us, we can still maintain a human element. Lanier posits that we should extract ourselves from the anonymity that the interenet and the digitas enables and become human by identifying ourselves as people and not cutegirl5678 on youtube (this is not my youtube name p.s.). I'm not about to humanise my blog too much but I like what Lanier has to say regarding our responsibility to use the internet wisely, to not engage in a hive mentality but rather offer things that we have truly contemplated and considered before we post things on the internet. This is what I'm trying to do.
I'm still me... though what is 'me' ?... if you don't actually know me, I'm just a blogger who seems slightly unstable and prone to ranting and swearing mixed up with some severely poor taste in music perhaps... I'm not a machine though, that at least, I can guarantee you
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