Digital barrier
For a long time I’ve been trying to understand what the new configuration of the world, which includes the Internet, can lead to. Cyberspace, being a part of reality, is at the same time a new, alternative reality, since it interacts with the inner world of a person through his senses as fully and comprehensively as the real reality is capable of acting. Of course, vision and hearing are still mainly exploited, but soon touch, smell and taste will be connected - and when this happens, each of us will think about how much he needs offline reality around him. Why do I need this whole endless world without the possibility of instantly transferring the "assembly point" to any place? Do I want to turn my attention to the one who is physically close to me, despite its shortcomings, while being distracted from ideal ones, perfect digital creatures? Am I interested in a person who is not brightly and visibly on the Web, is he able to entertain me at least a little, winning the competition for attention with millions of video-tactile-odor interactive broadcasts? This is the danger I see in the image of the future.
Already, a person who has created a blog on the Web and regularly maintains it, gets a significant advantage over a person with the same experience, but without a blog. First, a virtual anchor point appears: you can regularly learn new things about this person, about his thoughts, about his interests, just by reading a blog. Secondly, a person travels the world - the point remains. You can always be in touch - convenient, simple, affordable. Thirdly, you can communicate: ask questions in the comments, share your thoughts, learn and reason. And the person will recognize your thoughts and respond - answer questions, agree or argue with you. Fourth, the person himself, asking questions on his blog to readers or conducting surveys, will learn, learn new things, receive answers. Fifth, if comments are open, a community is formed - discussions, threads, topics. Such a pastime lasts for hours and captures, captures, captures ... Welcome - you are online. So, you have less time for reality.
But let's see what happens next. You posted the information, your friends read it, you just keep writing. Search engine spiders scan the Web day and night for new sites and updates to old ones. And after a few years (yes, that’s it) you become famous and popular, because suddenly you can write well (with experience, it’s better). Now you have a real (actually virtual) community of “friends” that craves each of your posts. And suddenly it turns out that you wanted to change your occupation or you decided that spending so much time writing letters on the screen is too much. Or you simply can not devote so much time to the Internet - your eyesight has spoiled or a child was born. And you discover something interesting. First, you cannot _nothing_delete_ already. What's the point of rubbing your site which you are tired of, make changes to the pages or delete the account from the social network? In the search engine cache EVERYTHING will be forever. Secondly, you will be sorry to part with ... this set of letters, these answers and design, and so on. You don’t even want to delete it all, do you? Thirdly, you do not want to part with the community. Well, after all, you have been saving them, your “friends” for so many years (by the way, who is this ZYZYTUT? I don’t know. But let it be, he wrote a lot of comments in my journal ...). They helped you, answered your questions, scolded you and laughed with you - and you want to leave them? Fourth, you’re so used to resolving issues through your blog. Find a kindergarten for a child through a search engine? It's easier to ask on your blog. Need an employee? Ask on the blog and take a friend of yours (in fact, you just exchanged a dozen comments, but it is not important). Fifthly, you simply don’t know where to put the free time. Are you tired of the child, reluctant to read, or something to go shopping? Boredom. Well, how can one not share the mood with readers? And now a chain stronger than a steel rope bound you hand and foot. Your advantage over a non-blog companion is growing, but you have to pay for everything. Sleepless nights, sore eyes and a crooked back at the monitor, voluntarily pumping life energy into countless kilobytes of comments on forums, in chat rooms and social networks, which you will never remember, but which will be stored forever. Well, how can one not share the mood with readers? And now a chain stronger than a steel rope bound you hand and foot. Your advantage over a non-blog companion is growing, but you have to pay for everything. Sleepless nights, sore eyes and a crooked back at the monitor, voluntarily pumping life energy into countless kilobytes of comments on forums, in chat rooms and social networks, which you will never remember, but which will be stored forever. Well, how can one not share the mood with readers? And now a chain stronger than a steel rope bound you hand and foot. Your advantage over a non-blog companion is growing, but you have to pay for everything. Sleepless nights, sore eyes and a crooked back at the monitor, voluntarily pumping life energy into countless kilobytes of comments on forums, in chat rooms and social networks, which you will never remember, but which will be stored forever.
So far, no one who has been using the Internet since birth has died of old age, since the Network is only 35 years old (how little!) But during this time it managed to penetrate everywhere. Our children will be fully covered by the Internet: from birth to death. He will be everywhere. And that will change the world of people more than anything else. Why be able to write, if in a lifetime you may not have to write a single letter? Why learn the rules for solving the quadratic equation if there are mobile online services that are everywhere and always with you? Why know the obsolete writers of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, if there is Pelevin and Lukyanenko? Why study at all on paper, pens, on textbooks, looking at a blackboard? All this is already dead, right now. Webinars and interactive shows are what are rapidly replacing education. A non-blog companion is already dead: he does not exist. There is nothing about him on the Internet, he does not conduct his video blog and podcast, which means that he does not attract the attention of customers, employers and investors. And the money is passing by. While attractive blondes and strong guys, PR on YouTube, live for fun. They are even invited on TV, where they teach us to live with you.
Transparency is progressing: new digital people are creating services for old pre-digital people, hacking public procurement systems, corruption schemes, offshore schemes for exporting capital, kicking clumsy officials, catching the bribes and embezzlers by the hand. But they are neither liberals nor patriots, in the same way exposing liars-oppositionists, fraudulent schemes of NPOs and external management. They are neither rich nor poor - they have a minimum of ownership, but a maximum of managerial knowledge that allows them to manage online users of their own universes. And this is what I came to: the future in which we will live depends on them. If these guys in their mass will help us, make our lives more convenient and beautiful, teach us knowledge that is useful in our lives, and make us like them, then we have a future.
This is, in my understanding, a digital barrier. Which we must overcome ourselves and help others in this. And being on the other side, try not to somehow confuse the generated image on the retina with the view of a freshly cut meadow in the morning. Probably the only way to do this in the future will be to go mowing on their own, spitting on the inefficiency of these actions for the global economy and personal well-being and cooling coffee near the constantly strumming skype.
Already, a person who has created a blog on the Web and regularly maintains it, gets a significant advantage over a person with the same experience, but without a blog. First, a virtual anchor point appears: you can regularly learn new things about this person, about his thoughts, about his interests, just by reading a blog. Secondly, a person travels the world - the point remains. You can always be in touch - convenient, simple, affordable. Thirdly, you can communicate: ask questions in the comments, share your thoughts, learn and reason. And the person will recognize your thoughts and respond - answer questions, agree or argue with you. Fourth, the person himself, asking questions on his blog to readers or conducting surveys, will learn, learn new things, receive answers. Fifth, if comments are open, a community is formed - discussions, threads, topics. Such a pastime lasts for hours and captures, captures, captures ... Welcome - you are online. So, you have less time for reality.
But let's see what happens next. You posted the information, your friends read it, you just keep writing. Search engine spiders scan the Web day and night for new sites and updates to old ones. And after a few years (yes, that’s it) you become famous and popular, because suddenly you can write well (with experience, it’s better). Now you have a real (actually virtual) community of “friends” that craves each of your posts. And suddenly it turns out that you wanted to change your occupation or you decided that spending so much time writing letters on the screen is too much. Or you simply can not devote so much time to the Internet - your eyesight has spoiled or a child was born. And you discover something interesting. First, you cannot _nothing_delete_ already. What's the point of rubbing your site which you are tired of, make changes to the pages or delete the account from the social network? In the search engine cache EVERYTHING will be forever. Secondly, you will be sorry to part with ... this set of letters, these answers and design, and so on. You don’t even want to delete it all, do you? Thirdly, you do not want to part with the community. Well, after all, you have been saving them, your “friends” for so many years (by the way, who is this ZYZYTUT? I don’t know. But let it be, he wrote a lot of comments in my journal ...). They helped you, answered your questions, scolded you and laughed with you - and you want to leave them? Fourth, you’re so used to resolving issues through your blog. Find a kindergarten for a child through a search engine? It's easier to ask on your blog. Need an employee? Ask on the blog and take a friend of yours (in fact, you just exchanged a dozen comments, but it is not important). Fifthly, you simply don’t know where to put the free time. Are you tired of the child, reluctant to read, or something to go shopping? Boredom. Well, how can one not share the mood with readers? And now a chain stronger than a steel rope bound you hand and foot. Your advantage over a non-blog companion is growing, but you have to pay for everything. Sleepless nights, sore eyes and a crooked back at the monitor, voluntarily pumping life energy into countless kilobytes of comments on forums, in chat rooms and social networks, which you will never remember, but which will be stored forever. Well, how can one not share the mood with readers? And now a chain stronger than a steel rope bound you hand and foot. Your advantage over a non-blog companion is growing, but you have to pay for everything. Sleepless nights, sore eyes and a crooked back at the monitor, voluntarily pumping life energy into countless kilobytes of comments on forums, in chat rooms and social networks, which you will never remember, but which will be stored forever. Well, how can one not share the mood with readers? And now a chain stronger than a steel rope bound you hand and foot. Your advantage over a non-blog companion is growing, but you have to pay for everything. Sleepless nights, sore eyes and a crooked back at the monitor, voluntarily pumping life energy into countless kilobytes of comments on forums, in chat rooms and social networks, which you will never remember, but which will be stored forever.
So far, no one who has been using the Internet since birth has died of old age, since the Network is only 35 years old (how little!) But during this time it managed to penetrate everywhere. Our children will be fully covered by the Internet: from birth to death. He will be everywhere. And that will change the world of people more than anything else. Why be able to write, if in a lifetime you may not have to write a single letter? Why learn the rules for solving the quadratic equation if there are mobile online services that are everywhere and always with you? Why know the obsolete writers of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, if there is Pelevin and Lukyanenko? Why study at all on paper, pens, on textbooks, looking at a blackboard? All this is already dead, right now. Webinars and interactive shows are what are rapidly replacing education. A non-blog companion is already dead: he does not exist. There is nothing about him on the Internet, he does not conduct his video blog and podcast, which means that he does not attract the attention of customers, employers and investors. And the money is passing by. While attractive blondes and strong guys, PR on YouTube, live for fun. They are even invited on TV, where they teach us to live with you.
Transparency is progressing: new digital people are creating services for old pre-digital people, hacking public procurement systems, corruption schemes, offshore schemes for exporting capital, kicking clumsy officials, catching the bribes and embezzlers by the hand. But they are neither liberals nor patriots, in the same way exposing liars-oppositionists, fraudulent schemes of NPOs and external management. They are neither rich nor poor - they have a minimum of ownership, but a maximum of managerial knowledge that allows them to manage online users of their own universes. And this is what I came to: the future in which we will live depends on them. If these guys in their mass will help us, make our lives more convenient and beautiful, teach us knowledge that is useful in our lives, and make us like them, then we have a future.
This is, in my understanding, a digital barrier. Which we must overcome ourselves and help others in this. And being on the other side, try not to somehow confuse the generated image on the retina with the view of a freshly cut meadow in the morning. Probably the only way to do this in the future will be to go mowing on their own, spitting on the inefficiency of these actions for the global economy and personal well-being and cooling coffee near the constantly strumming skype.