Comment The mindset sets the mind (Score 1) 193
It would appear that what the study defines is that, where any of the desireable elements is missing, the result is lessened. Keywords here are 'desireable' and 'lessened'. Each places a value on the condition and finds that the collective result is other than 'optimal' for the microcosm examined. We live in a larger world than one household, one city block; we find ways to cope with the separations of time and space. The study fails to account for the biggest part of human relations, familiarity and ease of communication. To the extent that any medium enhances this, it will be adopted, willingly and enthusiastically. From our experience, we go on to another place, from which we develop further into our next condition.
The Internet works because of the tools that have been enabled and the efficiency of those tools in enabling creative, individual solutions for problems. We can become and remain familiar with each other at previously impossible distances and ways. Our thoughts and ideas can be understood around the world in places and ways our parents could not have thought possible. I do wonder at the effects the advertising/merchandising model being used to fund Internet development will have, skewing its growth to enhance those ends. Ultimately, we will collectively resolve the issue and move beyond it, to another.
The Internet works because of the tools that have been enabled and the efficiency of those tools in enabling creative, individual solutions for problems. We can become and remain familiar with each other at previously impossible distances and ways. Our thoughts and ideas can be understood around the world in places and ways our parents could not have thought possible. I do wonder at the effects the advertising/merchandising model being used to fund Internet development will have, skewing its growth to enhance those ends. Ultimately, we will collectively resolve the issue and move beyond it, to another.
