Hello John, >I call it the Tyranny of the Instant. And it seems >to be getting worse.
This can be a topic on its own. I think many of the DDN issues are more human and social. Such as this one. It might have moved away from the original subject topic, but ... Personally I think most people took the 'instant' motto too far. With that we gradually changing/destroying our private and social life. And sometime political. Cell phones and instant messages are not the only problem, we have CNN, BBC world news and others that bring in good or bad news from around the world instantly. I think we become 'frangmented' because we are not 'allow' the time and the space to think, to plan, to research more before taking action. We are being pushed to give 'on the spot' decisions, and then have to swallow the blame if something goes wrong. I am sure many of us have seen enough of the recent Katrina so called unfolding events. On certain issues I like the exposures, but on others I don't think it is really fair... In the UK and I think also in NL, cell phone are banned on some train carriages. Passengers just want to have some peace and quiet moments while travelling. When I used to teach there was a rule we all observed, both instructors and trainees, cell phones and pages off or on vibration. Most trainees (professionals) also had the courtesy to inform the instructor before hand they might step out for urgent calls. I am quite amazed to see laptops in the classroom these days. I think there is a place for everything. I can imagine some would argue about taking notes, but how about the noise from machines and typing that might be annoying to others? What about curtesy to the lecturers or speakers? Why are we accepting it? It is becasue we are afraid others would call us old fashion? Or do we really need to be so Instant? Cindy Hoong [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
