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Interestingly, we'll be the last generation to remember analog, and compare the two realms....
www.preoccupations.org/2005/0...e_.html
www.preoccupations.org/2005/0...e_.html
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Re: Golden Age of the Internet
Sun, October 2, 2005 - 3:28 PMPersonally I'm so glad I'm my age (born early 70's), I get to have experinced my parents 8 tracks, a life without video, mass media etc and bought and loved sctratchy vinyl but have grown up through my 20's with the net, mp3's, DVD's and the death of many media (like tape).
I would think it would a a loss not span the two outlooks on life, however maybe thats what all generations think like, its just different technology shifts for each generation? -
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Re: Golden Age of the Internet
Mon, October 3, 2005 - 11:47 AMI agree, it is a loss to have not experienced the older technologies...I've no memory of 8 track tape, for example.
I think, however, that the accelerating pace of technology means that this experience is the first of a new trend: Where one generation will experience a new technology, only to have it out-moded within 30 years and become defunct.
Or maybe I'm just crazy.... -
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Re: Golden Age of the Internet
Mon, October 3, 2005 - 8:03 PMI would assert that it remains possible for an individual to experience many older technologies if such an experience has value to such an individual. Moreover, the internet provides such diverse access to people and information that it even seems plausible for someone to have a richer experience with certain older technologies than ever before.
I haven't tried to source an 8-track player on E-bay, but I'm betting both the equipment and the media could be found, as could quadraphonic sound, a 1950' vintage television. the list goes on.
Over the years I've seen many technologies come and go, some like early 50's automotive technology, I miss (tho' I don't miss them enough to go live in Cuba). Others, like 8-track and the Apple II were great at the time, but have clearly been superceded by much better technology.
Overall, I think that my kids, and someday my grandkids will manage quite well without experiencing even a small fraction of the analog world experiences that I have provided that we don't send humanity back to the stone age in one gigantic electromagnetic pulse. -
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Re: Golden Age of the Internet
Tue, October 4, 2005 - 7:02 AMYou can certainly buy anything but you will not be able to recreate a time and a headspace where the horizon only went as far as the limited technologies. Playing an super 8 cine film movie on a projector in 1975 when its was exciting technology, the best home entertainment you could get, will not feel the same as buying one off ebay moving your home theater suround sound out of the way for a night and playing a reel. -
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Re: Golden Age of the Internet
Tue, October 4, 2005 - 10:04 AMWell your earlier post that contemplated differing technology shifts for different generations resonates well for me. And short of a chemically enhanced playtime at the Smithsonian, NY Museum of Natural History or the like it's tough to replicate the headspace dimension. But I guess the way I view both the present and the future is along the lines of having access to the entire gamut of past technology. The Internet simply provides a very efficient way to access and organize an excursion along some particular technological path.
Part of what inspired my original post was the recollection of a documentary I saw recently. The subject, centuries old "WMD's". Here is but one of the hits returned from Googling "trebuchet reconstruction":
www.middelaldercentret.dk/acta.html
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