It occurs to me that it's not so much the connectedness as the boundaries.
Back in the day™, when people only had telephones, you didn't expect to get called a skillion times a day while you were taking a long weekend. It's really not all that different now.
While we're out there sucking in content, we're not having things pushed on us; there's a courtesy - possibly implicit - that prevents our personal networked lives from being too trampled on by our professional ones.
Back when we were kids, the advertising people told us that "in the future" we'd all be free from disease and living in peace, flying around with our own jetpacks. The future is now...and we're still waiting.
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It occurs to me that it's not so much the connectedness as the boundaries.
Back in the day™, when people only had telephones, you didn't expect to get called a skillion times a day while you were taking a long weekend. It's really not all that different now.
While we're out there sucking in content, we're not having things pushed on us; there's a courtesy - possibly implicit - that prevents our personal networked lives from being too trampled on by our professional ones.
By warren, at November 4, 2009 at 4:14 PM
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