Pixels and their consequences

fc123

wageslave wrote: »

I will be honest here, the net fascinates me. The way information travels across it, the relationships that are formed, the people we become online.

Whatever we believe, whatever happens next. This my friends is the future, we better find a way to make sense of it

I think I asked on other place what the book or film was called something like The Reading Club where a group of totally different people with very different lives met up once a week to discuss books...I should google but I must finish watching MA St martins......dear me it's hard work.

Anyway, didn't they all help each other out and become mates...that sounds a bit simple but......god this show is bad....I am trying to multi task here.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

wageslave wrote: »

This my friends is the future,

I am not to sure of that........

Power supply issues to address & solar activity.

Also Government ability to switch it off or tax it.

fc123

and sss555s intro'd me to another one that looks really interesting...in small doses. I reckon it may gobble up 30 mins a day maybe?

morag1202

wageslave wrote: »

So you are all agreed. Pixels are just that and can't compete with RL friends. Even when you spend longer on the net than you do communicating with real people?

Pixels can and do become RL friends on MSE. There have been at least two weddings, one on the Bankruptcy board and one in the Arms; two straight females who met on Disability and Dosh have been on holiday together and there are countless "meets" aranged on Old Style and other boards.

For me, MSE is my first and only forum and I joined for the wealth of information. But I am a "people watcher" by nature and find reading can be compulsive. There are some 650,000 members (ok, at least 75 are mr b) and some very, very interesting characters, a few of whom I'd probabley click with IRL but most not, and some :eek:

wageslave

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

I am not to sure of that........

Power supply issues to address & solar activity.

Also Government ability to switch it off or tax it.

No, this is the future. For better or worse this is who we are becoming. If you think power supplies will stop us, you don't know people.

The really amazing thing, and I suspect this is echoed across the world (though likely not in this country) my Da was barely literate.

In one generation we have gone from "can read with effort" to this.

Where will we go from here?

We are pioneers in many ways, our children will laugh at us with our facebook accounts and our forums.

Welcome to the virtual world, the digital city

1984ReturnsForReal_2

wageslave wrote: »

No, this is the future. For better or worse this is who we are becoming. If you think power supplies will stop us, you don't know people.

1869 - The Carrington Effect.... - Solar Flare hitting Earth

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wageslave

1984, I think you are even more bonkers than me.

And we are the future.

No wonder my mother is having panic attacks

1984ReturnsForReal_2

wageslave wrote: »

1984, I think you are even more bonkers than me.

And we are the future.

No wonder my mother is having panic attacks

Bonkers enough to know that it is only a matter of time before all the communications we rely on are disabled by an act of nature?

Maybe tomorrow, maybe in 100 years but it will happen unless scientists find a way to protect satellites. Which they really haven't got the foggiest idea at the moment.

PasturesNew

I met all my RL friends on t'Internet.... they're all over the country/world and I've met many of them, some on several occasions. They're all real people, good people, intelligent, with good jobs/lives. I just happened to meet them all online.

StevieJ

I find that that the internet is like the Tardis, time seems to move at a different speed than RL, you sign on and what appears to be a minute is actually one hour :eek: