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June 5, 2007

The Blog Herald: Flying Cars Are Unlikely

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 6:15 am

Did They Promise You Flying Cars Too?

When I first got to the Internet, I unconsciously tried to give everything a place, north, south, east, west. Being visual, I still find myself, thinking about people’s blogs and websites on a map of the world in my head. But that’s only half of the story.

Like any 3-D company — building and people — that I might drive to, the Internet is a place, but it’s also the people that live, work, and play every day here.

However, we have to remember that the two Internets — the place and the people — don’t sit on a world map or follow 3-D rules as the two companies in the physical world we are used to. Doc Searls says it well in his notes on the wrap up summary by Karim Lekhani at the Internet & Society 2007 Conference.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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6 Comments to “The Blog Herald: Flying Cars Are Unlikely”

  1. June 5th, 2007 at 11:36 am
    Mike said

    Liz,

    Who needs cars when you can teleport?

    And the internet is formed. Sure it will evolve in new and exciting ways, but you said that through your internet contacts you could have a conversation with anyone on the planet, and probably within 24 hours. That’s a level of capability available only to a handful of world leaders not so long ago.

    As by extension, if I had something really world-changing I wanted to do, I could convince you to help me and tap into that network.

    Doc is right that it will take some getting used to, because even as I type the words I can’t believe that I have access to such a resource…

  2. June 5th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mike,
    I think that the Internet isn’t yet formed . . . there are so many more things that can be discovered about how and why to use it.

    But I sure agres about the time it’s going to take to get our minds around what it is that we have at the other side of our keyboards. :)

  3. June 5th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
    Mike said

    What happened to that other comment of mine?

  4. June 5th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Oops! Did I miss one in the Akismet monster?

    Chris, help me!

  5. June 5th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
    Mike said

    Aaargh! Coulda been cockpit error!!

  6. June 5th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
    ME Strauss said

    You’re too kind. Human error is more like it. :)

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