fractalnavel

note to self: please remember that the phrase “digital divide” indicates a historical discontinuity of information as well as socio-geographic accessibility.

self: huh?  what are you bothering me for? you're the one who needs reminding!

[crap, bad phrasing] oh, shut up and go back to your hibernating.

self: thanks, i think i will. just be more careful next time.

sorry. [sheesh]

anyway, what i was trying to say before i was so rudely interrupted is that there are features to this new literacy of ours that are not always necessarily positive.  on the other hand, it may provide both the opportunity and dangers of a fresh start, and uncover presumptions about knowledge and communications that turn out to have been (un)interpreted wrongly. and, as communications are the basis for everything from science and economics to politics and culture, there should be fundamental impacts there as well.  however, the inertia, or maybe simple lack of imagination, of pre-divide powers-that-be are strongly handicapping this evolutionary process. 

not that people are necessarily forgetting these things, but they may be making the same mistakes as the last time a revolution in communication occurred (writing): they are not explicitly recognizing the process.  oh, sure, some few are.  but most people blithely go and just do.

hmm.  not really wanting to corral the self-organization process here, just perhaps inject finer distinctions and detail to improve the adaptability and richness of the process.