Mary’s digital life
Wired News, “Her So-Called Digital Life “Internet consultant Mary Hodder spends most of her life online. She has gone almost entirely digital. It may not be long before you do, too. “
We are now living in a beginning of “Always On” age. The internet connections are overlapping anywhere. Thus people like Mary and many of us can live in a digital life around the clock. But I believe the life is not as virtual as those gamers live. People are still real in this new paradigm. They will still meet in those cafe, however, must have APs in. Many social software like blog can actually reflect or extend one’s real life in a digital way, but not a virtual way. Blog, for example, can act as one’s anchordesk and stand points in ‘real’ time. The audience of blog can make ‘conversation’ with the people behind while the guy can do other things. In such way, digital life means high effectiveness, high efficiency, while keeping people in high social existence. In philosophical words, the Ontology and Epistemology didn’t change a lot.
Mary ever talked with me on social network service and blog in U.C. Berkeley. Now I know how she can get those insight, just from her called digital life.