The Culture Box

Laptop computers are nothing new, and yet they are the device which attaches with a frequently more prolific wi-fi umbilical cord to the world.

It's interesting, if one thinks briefly of the history of information. How the scribes in Egyptian days created language (after the carving of stone) and the data was carried thither and yon over trade routes and through castles and over massive land holdings in order to determine how many cows, concubines, and corn the monarch might have.

Now we have laptops, complete with their own energy source, and with the proper location the ability to connect instantly to just about any possible type of information one can imagine.

These culture boxes are, according to the psychological argument, the end of personal interaction. This is actually quite a contradiction. Think about it, with computers and internet access and email and instant messaging and sites like My Space propogating peoples pictures and thoughts and bands and pets; how is this the end of personal interaction?

There has never been more personal action.

It's a culture unto itself, this internet phenomenon. Do you have your box?