G.S.P - UK

Apr
19th

Sat

E-World Assimilation

Whilst purusing the second last lecture of an information methods and management subject, I came across a very interesting paper on the possibility of the death of languages other the English and their cultures due to the advent of the electronic community. It provided a detailed comparison of how the current borderless e-world has the potential to become a new form of colonialism due to the vast amount of content that is english only. English, despite having less native speakers than Mandarin, is clearly the second language of choice of most people around the world.

This sparked a number of questions in my mind regarding the continued evolution of content online:

1. Is the prevalence of english as a second language having a detrimental effect on native cultures who speak languges other than english?

2. Is the push for english web content a greater threat than colonisation ever was?

3. Is the drive for a global e-community, with the promise for diversity, actually having the opposite effect?

4. Is the unquenchable thirst for technological evolution and connectedness rapidly assimilating the diversity of humanity?

Put down your Ipod touch and ponder….

Apr
11th

Fri

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.

— Andy Rooney (via incidentalthinking)

Why?

Is the relentless search for a parsimonious explanation for all things in existence really the ultimate goal of humankind?

Perhaps our descendants will be more of the opinion that ignorance is indeed bliss…….

Your thoughts?

Apr
10th

Thu

they acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands…Thus, not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him: it throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. 1835.

Apr
7th

Mon

Qwitter Harnesses Twitter to Help You Quit Smoking [Smoking]

dchly:

The only thing worse than constantly reaching for your phone to Twitter at social occasions is a constant need for a nicotine fix, and health organization Tobacco Free Florida must sense their…