Breadth of technology
I’m sitting in a room of brilliant technologists. I am overwhelmed and overstimulated at the same time (now, I can go to Sephora or Neiman Marcus, look at 100 lipsticks, and feel pure joy). But the sheer sense of the opportunity that technology delivers is stunning.
A natural healer came to the group to open the session yesterday. She spoke of simplicity and looking into one’s self. I find this harder to do with the sheer volume of information– indeed options– out there. Our eyelids must surely flicker more frequently now.
Women, traditionally, have better visual scanning skills than men. We read traffic signs faster. As an ex-competitive volleyball player, I was amazed to read about the enhanced visual scanning skills of trained volleyball players. Now though, will our order of intellectual regard and acknowledgement be defined by those who can interpret this overwhelming and wooly world? Creative Commons and folksonomy? This surely will create a new digital divide and technology propogates and more and more newness requires constant processing.
Sorting technology requires intensive filtering ability. We now seem to think through memes and maps. How deep do we look now? And how quickly?
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