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[gfish]

Someone just walked by my window talking about hexadecimal and ASCII. I had the ghost of an impulse to run out and strike up a conversation. Which would be totally weird, and it makes me sad to realize that there is no sense of camaraderie when it comes to being into computers anymore. For that matter, who the hell would say they're into computers these days? That's like saying you're into breathing. We've lost a lot of frontiers over the last 15 years.

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[anansi133.livejournal.com]

I've noticed this too, and I actually feel pretty good about it. We are shifting our language from a semantics of *things* toward a semantics of *relationships*. The 'thing'-ness of a computer is really pretty shallow, it's a noisy beige box, so what? But the relationships within that box, and what that box might be connected to, can get very interesting.

As this newer reality trickles into common usage, more of my utopian shopping list becomes possible.