Ours is the life digital.
The days of broadsheets and quill pens are long past. We are so over Gutenberg, the printed page crumpled and discarded in favor of streaming media and electronic ink. From the moment of birth we are immersed in the vast sea of social media: down-loading, texting, streaming, podcasting, liking, linking and linked in. Our social velocity accelerates, and our lives are ever more immediate and relentless.
Analog is just so…analog.
Anyone wishing to create a 'popular' web destination will follow a broadly circulated set of rules and guidelines intended to allow said destination to compete for the jaded eye of the media-soaked internet audience. In exchange for ‘hits’, that ultimate internet currency, one must deliver content in brief, dazzling spasms, lest the consumer’s attention be drawn elsewhere. We, these guidelines hold, have lost our ability to focus, our attention spans eroding as the digital hucksters clamor and compete for ever smaller increments of our lives.
Piffle.
Consider this your invitation to high tea in a world of digital rave parties.
I write about science fiction and the business thereof. Interactive flash, algorithmic group-think and predigested infolets you can get elsewhere. However, if you’re looking for thoughtful analysis, daring prose, and a tendency to use words that went out of fashion with Middle English, then welcome home.
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