Isaac Asimov talks to Bill Moyers in 1988 about the implications of everyone having access to computers that are linked to everyone else – and how this access to information will revolutionize how we all learn. Brilliant stuff.
He’s one smart dude – and probably the only person in the world who could sport such outrageous whiskerage.
Cheers.
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I wonder if Asimov has any expectation that so much bandwidth would come to be used for pop culture ephemera.
I suspect he would have sagely approved. Pop culture, ephemeral or not, is still knowledge and information – it describes who we are in a moment of time – that it washes over us in an unregulated flood as opposed to being relegated to editorialized niches is, in my opinion at least, a good thing. It is not retained, restrained, marginalized, obscured, reduced or belittled – it just is and available for all to access, ponder, ignore or obsess upon. The pure joy of the grand expanse of human knowledge and experience – which is a never ending, always growing, forever evolving landscape – is that we are now, more than ever, able to entertain which ever portion of it we choose to. That so much dross rides upon the tide along with the gold does not diminish the power of the wave. Surf, baby, surf.
cheers