FORWARD – as humans have always wanted to talk and to share:
look, a dove has arrived with a message about olympians in athens
gutenberg
morse
daugerre’s gift
and thomas edison’s too
bell, meucci, and the work of all the other names
maxwell and hertz and bose, to marconi and fessenden
and words and music and books and prints and photos and blueprints and manifestos and mass printed color posters going to and going fro
and ww1
world. war.
1
lumeire to baird to farnsworth
and communism and socialism and fascism and nationalism and racism
and all the other isms
and all the other flags
and all the other tribes
and the big screen
and mass propaganda and mass propaganda
and tripping and twitching
ww2
world. war.
2
davies and pouzin, taylor and roberts, to berners-lee
and how we humans communicate
when the communicating gets really really easy
how we only talk with the ones we really want to talk to
only read, listen to, watch what we really want to
only what we agree with, only what makes us feel good
not what we don’t want to read
don’t want to hear
don’t want to see
like maybe the other half of a shared reality
yes yes all of these are revolutions in communication
the immense good yes
all bringing humans closer together yes yes
but always the same pattern throughout the history of mankind
the confirmation bias, the input bias
forming us into tribes of the same mind
flying the same flag with the same name
atomized, tribalized, radicalized
this natural weakness of human nature
and now the name zuckerberg
and social media
and now the ego avatars and the selfie cages…
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