The world, or at least that portion
of the world that is still under 35, does seem to be
receding from me (or I from it), rushing toward a
vanishing point that I can not longer fully make out.
And the intelligence that comes back to me seems
strangely garbled, full of metaphors and fragments --
things like "JavaScript, Web Monkey, and Active
X." I get e-mail from my graduate students with
subject lines that read "You can't do this, can
you?" I suppose that's how we teach these days
... In an era of digital informating, there isn't any
other way to be but modern in its roots sense of
"living in the now." But since now always
unceasingly becomes then ... no one is not
held by that horizon of change. The horizon is not
rational (or Newtonian), but post-rational (or
virtual). Not a place, but a condition.
-- Stuart Moulthrop
