Intelligence and Its Artifacts
Stephen L. Talbott,
NetFuture,
Aug 06, 2003
In your thought piece for the day, Steve Talbott raises the question of what happens when we lose touch with the "originating intelligence" in electronic communications. The mind creates ideas, the ideas are translated into words, and these - tokens of our thoughts, not the throughts themselves - are sent into the ether. But in this process, as the distance increases and the intermediating technologies become more complex, the token is confused for the idea itself. Talbott asks, "What might the opposite process -- a genuine re-ensouling of language -- look like? If in fact we are the ones who speak technology into existence, how could our speaking becomeCRLFmore profound?" We need, I think, cues. Our writing needs to be more open, more passionate, more personal. Whether spoken or online, my words are effective only if, through them, you get to peer inside my soul. You may not always like what you see, but at least you know that it's me - and not my word processor - speaking.
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