It’s life, but not as we know it
January 5th, 2009 at 7:07 am (Thoughtful)
“It’s the mind’s new dimension .. a world without edges..”
This poem was written at the height of the mid nineties hype about the World Wide Web, at a time when the papers were full of talk about the “Internet Highway”. Looking back, some of the hype was justifiable. The WWW has altered our lives in undreamed of ways. Yet my aim was to challenge the idea that it could do everything. Although we knew nothing then about things to come, such as social networking and Second Life, I still think it’s important to challenge to remember that we live for real in the physical world, and that there are some things that can’t be substituted in the virtual one.
