Comments on: The world in your living room http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2008/01/07/the-world-in-your-living-room/ Musings about work and life Thu, 06 May 2010 07:00:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19827 By: Roland Hesz http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2008/01/07/the-world-in-your-living-room/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 Roland Hesz Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:18:06 +0000 http://heszroland.hu/?p=74#comment-1202 I agree about the cliques. One thing however is that we always have more than one cliques. I have "online" cliques with people from all around the world, and "offline" cliques in my on "real life" location.<br>I definitely don't think we will be prejudice free any time soon, but I think it's harder to say "every german/french/american/japanese,/whatever is a...." when you actually know some real people.<br><br>What I think is that the geographical differences will be less important, but other differences will be more important. Of course I can be mightily mistaken - but I actually experienced something like that in the early days, when Joe from the US and Ivan from the former Soviet Union discovered that the other is not a blood drinking communist/capitalist devil, but a guy who had fantasies about Samantha Fox and Madonna just like he had and listened to Queen or whatever. <br>Probably Ivan and Joe in this case were already open minded enough, but the possibility to communicate helped I guess.<br><br>As for me, my virtual and real world always connect, I try to drag the virtual into the physical - not always easy, airplane tickets are getting really expensive, but I do my best.<br><br>addon: No, I don't think the internet will really change people. It will just change things as we perceive them. Physical distance will become less important <b>to a degree</b>. I think :) I agree about the cliques. One thing however is that we always have more than one cliques. I have “online” cliques with people from all around the world, and “offline” cliques in my on “real life” location.
I definitely don't think we will be prejudice free any time soon, but I think it's harder to say “every german/french/american/japanese,/whatever is a….” when you actually know some real people.

What I think is that the geographical differences will be less important, but other differences will be more important. Of course I can be mightily mistaken – but I actually experienced something like that in the early days, when Joe from the US and Ivan from the former Soviet Union discovered that the other is not a blood drinking communist/capitalist devil, but a guy who had fantasies about Samantha Fox and Madonna just like he had and listened to Queen or whatever.
Probably Ivan and Joe in this case were already open minded enough, but the possibility to communicate helped I guess.

As for me, my virtual and real world always connect, I try to drag the virtual into the physical – not always easy, airplane tickets are getting really expensive, but I do my best.

addon: No, I don't think the internet will really change people. It will just change things as we perceive them. Physical distance will become less important to a degree. I think :)

]]> By: emsquared http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2008/01/07/the-world-in-your-living-room/comment-page-1/#comment-1201 emsquared Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:00:15 +0000 http://heszroland.hu/?p=74#comment-1201 The Internet is a great resource.It depends whether a lot of it remains a virtual world and whether your 'real world' and online world actually connect sometimes.In theory the net should be a force for democracy and enhance our understanding of one another though at times it just seems to underline our differences & intolerances as the natural tendency of forming cliques continues. It's still early days yet for the Internet and maybe the 'real world' has yet to feel its unifying (or fragmenting) impact. No doubt in time new social structures that supersede geographic borders may eventuate. The Internet is a great resource.It depends whether a lot of it remains a virtual world and whether your 'real world' and online world actually connect sometimes.In theory the net should be a force for democracy and enhance our understanding of one another though at times it just seems to underline our differences & intolerances as the natural tendency of forming cliques continues. It's still early days yet for the Internet and maybe the 'real world' has yet to feel its unifying (or fragmenting) impact. No doubt in time new social structures that supersede geographic borders may eventuate.

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