[syndicate] Fwd: Downtime & Play

[Alan Sondheim]

Gads, Trebor ditezmoi

  Technologies
> >define us.
> >We are conditioned to relate to them in predefined ways.
> Using technologies
> >changes what we know and how we know it. But we do have a
> say in this. We can
> >shape the technologies that we are using.  Networked
> technologies do not have
> >to stand for servitude.

What on earth? We don't already know this? I'm not sure what the point of 
the text is. Maybe he's too old? If he were hacking he'd certainly under- 
stand the fun of it and the uselessness of theory. I use linux pdas just 
about everywhere, sometimes online sometimes off, so what? Who cares? He 
also doesn't seem to get that business is fun? At the conf. he organized 
(that I was at), he was fairly insulting to the artists there. I mean the 
artists who weren't part of his coterie, didn't fit in. I was one of them, 
I mean I won't speak for the others who were also a bit dispossessed, what 
a mess it was for us.

Terbor is the nothing new that would be nothing new for Geert, good grief.

Alan realizing his first name backwards, Nala, means pretty much nothing -

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