Comments on: Digital Purity http://circ.us/2007/01/digital-purity/ Circ.us is a creative communications firm that helps brands tell stories through innovation and participation. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:21:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: halley http://circ.us/2007/01/digital-purity/comment-page-1/#comment-509 halley Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:37:31 +0000 http://amediacirc.us/2007/01/31/digital-purity/#comment-509 Thanks for the post Adam. And yes, it is quite the paradox to overcome - this being an illustration of the larger picture. Ubiquitous computing being the conversation much like the book, 1984. What is it going to look like, and what are we going to lose through adoption of it's functionality - there's something innate in its premise that is exciting and yet terrifying. With this growth one can only hope that its development is cautiously approached, always examining issues of privacy and safety, and that we aren't rushing to the finish line for the sake of winning a single race - much in the same way was done with nuclear power being developed far before we had any thoughts about how to manage it's magnitude and properly deal with the waste. Another way of positioning the discussion, is to again revisit the dialog regarding what we are losing vs. what we know we are losing. Don't get me wrong at all (which i don't think you did) I'm a HUGE advocate of new media and what the digital age is empowering people to create. But Decasia made me rethink the sometimes blind following of newest greatest thing when you're forced to see the beauty of what's always been there for as long as at least we can remember. Thanks for the post Adam. And yes, it is quite the paradox to overcome – this being an illustration of the larger picture. Ubiquitous computing being the conversation much like the book, 1984. What is it going to look like, and what are we going to lose through adoption of it’s functionality – there’s something innate in its premise that is exciting and yet terrifying.

With this growth one can only hope that its development is cautiously approached, always examining issues of privacy and safety, and that we aren’t rushing to the finish line for the sake of winning a single race – much in the same way was done with nuclear power being developed far before we had any thoughts about how to manage it’s magnitude and properly deal with the waste.

Another way of positioning the discussion, is to again revisit the dialog regarding what we are losing vs. what we know we are losing. Don’t get me wrong at all (which i don’t think you did) I’m a HUGE advocate of new media and what the digital age is empowering people to create. But Decasia made me rethink the sometimes blind following of newest greatest thing when you’re forced to see the beauty of what’s always been there for as long as at least we can remember.

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