Watch This Space

Rose said she was shocked that most of us, gen-X, gen-Y people should resist the implications of technology. We argued all too strongly we weren't resisting - we were just a careful, cautious, pragmatic group of people who didn't rent billboards to scream 'the newspaper is dead, long live the newspaper'. What if we were old-fashioned and fantasised a world where people loved hard bound books and took a lungful of newspaper breath with the morning cup of tea? It's our version of petrol sniffing! And uncontrolled, unrestrained information flow in a virtual space with pseudonym-ed characters is as good or as bad as controlled, regulated information flow. The chance of 'spin' rendering information dangerous for innocent consumption is as great or as little as in the case of traditional media. Are we being hasty then, garlanding content-aggregators as heroes and content-moderators as villains? Shouldn't we just wait and watch the free-information world come together beautifully or see it fall apart as if it were our ultimate dystopia?

Maybe I am sceptical. That's why the delay in getting a blog. For years, the best friend in India and I assured each other -
"we don't blog because we write."
We had other ready excuses for people,
"there is nothing to say,"
"we are private people, we don't care to tell the world all about our morning breakfast or share our butter chicken recipe with the bald guy in Helsinki."

Now due to a professional/educational requirement, I had to bite the bullet. But I'll continue to resist all things twitter...ill fight twooth and nail if someone tries to tweet me down to 140 characters.

It's your turn now best friend!