Digital Dump, pt. 1
April 8th, 2009 by Gnat
Oh gentle readers, my blog posts have been few and far between, I know. I’ve been sort of overwhelmed with attempting to navigate the sea of information online as of late. I’ve found the migration of users from Myspace to the cleaner, yet just as time-wasting, Facebook to be a semi-fascinating phenomenon. Social media — is it a groovy new way to communicate or just the next dot com bubble? I think that remains to be seen, and the future is unwritten so it’s anyone’s guess. I know lately that I crave to return to some more primal, pure, way of living. Twitter and Facebook are nice, yes, but what about steppes and tundras? Deserts, forests and oceans. Albert Hoffman in his old age and wisdom said that we must include nature in our everyday lives in order to be happy. I agree. A conundrum of modern life has always been how to marry progress with happiness. Here are ten historic clashes that kicked our intellectual evolution into overdrive:
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