Asking all my life.
Ethernick.com is now running off
linode.
Thought it was a good time to expand and play. Not many hosts are offering something
relatively cheap to run node. I’ve been antsy to see how Ghost is doing
in a real world context.
As of now, my previous medium hosted publication,
The aether, has been moved onto ghost.
There is no question the iPhone changed every owner’s washroom regiment. We don’t need that pile of readers digests anymore.
But did anyone see that happening?
Probably not, no one can see it all. But did anyone think about the interaction like that?
As the Internet of Things (IoT) advances and we put the internet in things like blinds and make new crazy things that never existed before, who is stopping to ask, or to teach to ask, what are the ecological ramifications?
I’m sure they are asking what are some of the ramifications, after all every VC pitch needs to know “why” and even the risks. But I’m not 100% sure we’re looking at the whole picture of risks.
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How we interact with our technology shapes us. Sure the technology itself is cool – but I honestly don’t know who’s really thinking about our future generations and how they will be shapped by these things.
This post was originally published on one of my old blogs. I backdated this to the original publish date.
What if the future of class is media choices?
Two things I like about this article.
One – Sputnik Moments
In recent months, China has quietly given the United States a series
of new Sputnik Moments
Although a tad fear mongering, still very very cool phrase
Two – Quantum Communications
China successfully tested the world’s first quantum satellite
communication – relying on the physics of quantum entanglement to send and
receive provably secure messages.
I beg your pardon? What did it just say? Quantum Satellite Communication
The more we get comfortable in our information age, the more valuable it is for immediacy.
Tidal uses immediacy with invested artists to get subscribers.
Record labels leverage it in negotiations with Spotify.
You want to watch Game of Thrones without spoilers? You’ve got to watch it sooner.
Maybe you should pay for HBO.
My iPhone 5C is dead.
Again
I thought we had lost it, but a friend saved it. Then in my excitment to tell the story of the saved iPhone,
I chucked it across the room and now the screen is broken. Dead again
Rogers now wants to charge me a stupid amount of money for not the newest iPhone 6…. ummmm?? What?
So until I come up with either some $$ or another plan… it shall remain dead.
Update: April 17, 2016
Never go to a “franchise” location!
Finally went to a real location, and while I didn’t get the latest 7. I got the SE for Free.
Much better. Plus it fits in my 5C case perfectly
I want to sign up to one of the mastodon instances
I Just can’t pick right now. It’s like registering for [insert absurd name here]@hotmail.com.
Or using hotmail or yahoo for an aplication to any tech job. I feel it will be important soon.
What’s really good is that Mastodon is the layer missing from Twitter. If twitter is the hum
and churn of a busy street. Mastodon are the shops and cafe’s along the way. Pop in an out of
mini communities all while being connected.
I’m surprised more businesses haven’t spun any instances or communities up yet
If you don’t know McLuhan’s theory, here’s my super-duper simplified a-little-too-much version of it:
Around 1964, McLuhan theorized that as technology advanced it would become a digital central nervous system of information connecting all media like our physical central nervous system connects our senses.
In this connectivity, mankind will revert back to an oral society, back to a time of Villages — but this time a Global Village. In turn, it would rekindle us back to a tribal-like life.
Yes, his central nervous system theory was a prediction of the Internet. Usually, the mic drops here, we stop.
But wait, there’s more.
His Global Village is happening everywhere. It’s in every craft beer you drink, every food truck you eat at, pop up shop you buy a bar of elderflower artisanal soap from; every digital nomad you meet; every tattoo and piercing; every lumber-sexual you see drinking an Old Fashioned variant with locally source gin or whisky.
What does an oral society have to do with all of that?
The underpinning of most of McLuhan’s theories is how we interacted with a medium is far more important than its content. It changes us by interacting with it. The radio dial and transistors; understanding that invisible waves can transmit voices through the air; using the theatre of the mind to pretend that the announcer is talking just to you. All of this is more important than how captivating the content is.
How does media make lumber-sexuals? It’s the consequences of how your brain rewires itself slightly when interacting with a medium.
The dominant medium of choice can influence how your mind works, in essence, your thoughts.
Back to the Lumber-sexual thing.
Orality.
Yup – there’s that word again
Story Telling. Oral Traditions. Great grandmothers teaching grandmothers a recipe. Learning a childhood lesson through a bedtime fable. The sound of someone else’s voice as you remember what you’ve learned. It rings with a sense of history.
McLuhan referred to this oral time and the time of the Tribal Man. And like the term Tribal, a sense of history comes. The exploration of it — asking yourself, when Mom said she was drinking an “Old fashioned” what was that? When Dad was showing me a picture telling me about camping — what was up with the mustache and toque? How would I look with a mustache and toque?
And the exploration of history deepens:
Sure — this isn’t the exact same. Our current Orality is driven more through digital channels, but it’s still word of mouth.
The craft and artisanal resurgence are nice and all, I’m a huge sucker for that scene, but with the latest wave of Xenophobic-like politics happening in the US & UK, I’ve started wondering, is Orality a part of it?
If you’ve traveled as I have, you have walked into a place you shouldn’t have been. All eyes staring up at you wondering who you were, asking themselves “What is this stranger doing in here? Don’t they know better?”
Now imagine going farther back in time. What happens to that situation in a more primitive world: Slavery. Salem witch hunts. North America’s genocidal colonization. Farther. Holy Wars. Dark Ages. Roman Conquest. Genghis Khan. Vikings. Farther.
Humanity has a history before the written word of being fiercely loyal and territorial, perhaps to a fault: racism, religious wars, family feuds escalated to extremes causing neighbours to kill. Our history is full of a darker side when anyone mentions “protecting our own.”
Oh did I bury the lead… McLuhan said so himself …
McManus: But it seems, Dr. McLuhan, that this tribal world is not friendly.
McLuhan: Oh no, tribal people, one of their main kinds of sport is butchering each other. It’s a full-time sport in tribal societies.
McManus: But I had some idea that as we got global and tribal we were going to try to — —McLuhan: The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There’s no evidence of that in any situation that we’ve ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more and more savage, impatient with each together….The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
If you can get past that part and watch the rest – I think it will also help with where I’m going. Though – take out the old man complaining about the young wippersnappers.