Re: [microsound] top cellular 40

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On that, there be may reason to despair or hope (depending on your take of
the below blurb).  Take a look at Jaron Lanier's research in vr and
avatars utilizing internet2.  The more technology advances the more I see
a 'Snowcrash' type future as opposed to a 'Matrix' type future.

graham miller wrote:
> it's funny when you consider how much of our lives is spent on the phone,
> key moments and pivotal intersections, conversations and relationships,
> fights and felicitations, all squished into this tiny low-res version of
> sound without face... i suppose the same is true of e-mail these days as
> well: entire rapports beamed across cyberspace hinging upon the proper
> interpretation of alphanumerics, emoticons and hyperlinks... this idea
> that (reduced) bandwidth is actually intensifying physical experience and
> face-to-face human interaction rather than atrophying it...
>

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