Why the hype?
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- Posted on Nov 27, 2008 at 03:20
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Sad feeling
I was just thinking:
Sometimes, browsing the web without a path or an end, following link after link after link, I stumble upon a blog that I found interesting and I subscribe it. This happened with new bands and lots of other things, obviously.
The problem starts when I realize that:
I will never read all the blogs I’d find interesting. I bet they’re out there and they’re a lot. I just don’t hit them.
I will never hear about all the bands that exist out there and that I’d like if I knew them. I will never know of even half of them.
I will never know of lots of eBay auctions that I’d win if I knew about them. Probably, items that I don’t even need, but that I’d buy just because.
And this is so sad. So much good stuff being done all over the world and I will never know of.
Comments on this entry
You’ve discovered the pain that ignorance causes. :) It is good to feel that, it makes us understand that our knowledge is tiny compared to what we might have known if we had infinite time and means.
Posted by Sócrates, about 1 year agoAllow me to quickly delve into science fiction…
You can’t listen to every song, watch every movie, or read every blog, but your ‘digital self’ can.
A digital persona, built from your explicit profile and implicit/gathered digital experience, that is so much like you, that it is virtually yourself in digital format.
Something like ‘you2’: http://tinyurl.com/czrx4n
Now step back from science fiction, and imagine a group of slightly nutter engineers working on what could one day become a reality ;)
It might not happen on our lifetime, but I’ll be damned if one day my grandkids won’t have something resembling that. At least that’s the long term vision for my project: grokya.org ;)
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