I agree with this, and have been writing (translating, mostly, the work of Michel Cartier (www.michelcartier.com) retired from the Universite de Quebec a Montreal) about this issue in some detail over the last several months.

I will be interested in your opinions when “Constellation W – towards a model for a knowledge-based society” goes online again near the end of June. The first version was online a couple of years ago, but suffered from poor navigational design and was incomplete. Hopefully iyt will be more interesting and more useful this time around.

We are behind…AND there are new dimensions of status. I think you are onto something though. Time is folding inside the web. The odd mixture of reflective time, immediate chat-like time and semi-thought blog time is having to be sorted out in each individual mind. Some aren’t coping. Some are finding a new way to live.

Ryan

In Yiddish, and now English, Mensch carries the broader meaning. It calls a person to performance, not just being.

See Jurvetson’s prediction of search by which browsers are open? Pretty exciting to simply ask who is paying attention. Who has this is their priority this second?