Flutterby™! : personal trajectory

Brennen has some interesting musings on his personal trajectory

This thing about the Internet: It too used to seem vast, something like the pages of a book with no discernible beginning or end. Or rather, something like the space inside of the experience of a book, of many books. It used to be a frontier, an unknown city full of the sound of construction, a series of doors opening onto strange corridors, a shifting surface through which other minds could be seen moving in realtime, could be approached and known.

But go read the whole thing, because there's something big that's been lost in the shift to "social" media, Twitter, Facebook, and in the dominance of the web by commerce rather than ideas.

And that malaise, I think, is echoed in the larger society, where we've lost a sense of a larger direction, of new frontiers to be explored. Some of that is that the 'net has revealed that most people are idiots and we as a species are likely to blindly march forward into a mass extinction event, but... well... on the third hand...