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The unshareable lightness of seeing

The naturally ignored moment of a photo opp as you witness that perfect twilight moon with your loved ones, friends, family, or tribe. The forgotten opportunity of the social share - the innocent laughter of your children deeply engrossed  in the art of unscripted moment-making. The perfect smile of that happy parent,  as she REMs through her dreams reliving her favorite times of life spent with her child. The bright lit face  shining through the dim lights - as you thank them heartily  for their gracious service of food and shelter - helping the rest of the world  live their holiday. And a million more moments - of travels with others whose paths  we could never guess or anticipate, but are there to intersect with yours. Neither shared nor share-able in any medium other than a mirror-neuronal reflection with a snapshot stored in future nostalgia. -- Filled with sharper smells,  softer sounds, brighter lights and broader smile

A Packet Switched Society

A Packet Switched Society The world of human social interactions evolved as a small network of circuit switched conversations and interactions. Happening in real-time and space, together, within sense-shot, it has built the modern edifices - those we now take so much for granted: institutions, technologies and frameworks for society. This movement in evolutionary space, distinguished us from most other creatures, Now almost a platform, plus or minus a few black swan events that could flatten it all Into the beginning of the next random walk down life-space and gene-pools, in an eyeblink of geological time. The tools of this revolution, our senses, were perfect to build the societies of yesterday - Where circuits of conversations led to breathtaking jumps in the evolutionary space of tools, ideas, conversations and social change.  In those times, we had very few channels, mostly single channel face-to-face, building out extensive new creatio

The impossible choices

Life is filled with choice, moment to moment. We are therefore led to believe that every choice is free to be made. Some choices are bounded by time - if you don't make that Black Friday choice, your deal is gone. Some choices are bound by space - you have to live here, or there. But some choices are impossible to make after a particular amount of time has gone by. These choices aren't the normal everyday ones. These are hard ones. What to do after losing a loved one, what to do when you lose everything, or what to do when you've reached the place of your dreams as a child. The problem with these kind of choices is that you are almost always too late to the game if you are thinking about it after the fact. Even rarer are those choices, not about space or time, but about the mind. If you are at a fork in one of these choice-roads, the curious thing is this: if you are looking at yourself AT the fork, you're too late - either choice leads you to get neither! You