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April 1, 2009
Understanding Twitter
I really don't get Twitter. It seems inane, slow and above all boring. Therefore, it was with great amusement that I saw the following cartoon:
For some reason, Twitter reminds me of the computer based telepathy described in the David Gerrold's War Against the Chtor series. I've mentioned this series before in Someone at the Pentagon has been reading David Gerrold. In the War Against the Chtor, telepathy comes from brain implants. However, it only allows you to read the mind of others with similar implants. Eventually, as you learn to use the implants you can switch minds with others that use them, and finally you disappear into a giant hive mind. When I read that, it didn't make any sense to me and I couldn't imagine anyone wanting to participate. Who would want to participate in a hive mind? Who would give up their privacy? Why want to read the mind of exhibitionist losers with weird thoughts and boring lives? I still wouldn't want to participate, but between live journal, twitter, Wikipedia, and open source / free software, I'm it is becoming easy to imagine others wanting to participate in such a project.
Posted by OneEyedMan at April 1, 2009 8:05 AM
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