Comments on: Isaac Asimov – 1988 – On The Internet http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2010/03/07/isaac-asimov-1988-on-the-internet/ I fucked up my blog - now it looks like this. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:41:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robbo http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2010/03/07/isaac-asimov-1988-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-45337 Robbo Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:10:37 +0000 http://www.millsworks.net/blog/?p=927#comment-45337 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 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

]]> By: John Schmidt http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2010/03/07/isaac-asimov-1988-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-45336 John Schmidt Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:03:32 +0000 http://www.millsworks.net/blog/?p=927#comment-45336 I wonder if Asimov has any expectation that so much bandwidth would come to be used for pop culture ephemera. I wonder if Asimov has any expectation that so much bandwidth would come to be used for pop culture ephemera.

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