Via Making Light. A 15 minute TED (think: lexicographer!) talk about free time, TV, the internet, participation and community. And a lot of me going, "oh, hell yes" and being transfixed. Critical thought later, maybe.
For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time...
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For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time...
Video here
Transcript that I'm reading here
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Laughed out loud at this line, too:
Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then.
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Although as much as I love the idea of the internet=community, it's still a 'waste' of time in many, many ways... *refreshes flist* :P
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