"Such software addresses only a desire for community, Lockard writes, not the real thing"
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The same argument could be made about our eyes and sense of touch as well. That these bio-hardware/software[s] address only the desire for community, not the real thing.
The arguement fails when desire is seen as a force that connects and breaks into old flows and makes new connections. Then the question is not one of lack, but of what is being produced and created.
Online software, like eyes and hands, can be used to produce community, or not.
- Richard Wilkerson
Electric Dreams Community
http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
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The same argument could be made about our eyes and sense of touch as well. That these bio-hardware/software[s] address only the desire for community, not the real thing.
The arguement fails when desire is seen as a force that connects and breaks into old flows and makes new connections. Then the question is not one of lack, but of what is being produced and created. Online software, like eyes and hands, can be used to produce community, or not. - Richard Wilkerson Electric Dreams Community http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams