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I had an idea last night.
As everyone knows, we are fast approaching the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Everyone is discussing how the best memorialize the event, and the people lost. Here's my two cents.
A day of silence on the Internet. For one calendar day, starting at 0001 11 SEP 02, your local time, stop posting, emailing, surfing whatever. A global day of silence moving around the world. I realize that this would be impossible for those in business who rely on the net, but I think it would be a powerful statement. I remember on that day the messages on the Traveller Mailing List to our NYC members asking "are you ok?" And I know the terrible silence when one person never replies to those calls.
So for one day, stay off the net. It will survive. talk on the phone, go for a walk, or just remember how much we all lost on the terrible day, one year ago.
A day of silence on the Internet. For one calendar day, starting at 0001 11 SEP 02, your local time, stop posting, emailing, surfing whatever. A global day of silence moving around the world. I realize that this would be impossible for those in business who rely on the net, but I think it would be a powerful statement. I remember on that day the messages on the Traveller Mailing List to our NYC members asking "are you ok?" And I know the terrible silence when one person never replies to those calls.
So for one day, stay off the net. It will survive. talk on the phone, go for a walk, or just remember how much we all lost on the terrible day, one year ago.
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Perhaps to you.
Perhaps if you had a phobia of telephones (I do) or had met and spent most of your time communicating with a mate in email (I do) or had your major work and social contacts maintained via telnet (I do) or kept in touch with a partner all day while that person is in the office through the net (I do) and are living between five hundred and . . . several thousand miles, I'm not sure whether or not it's further to Alaska or Finland from here . . . from the people who are your normal support you might have a different perspective.
To you, avoiding the net is encouraging intimacy. To me, it is slaughtering it.
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