Comments on: Screenworld http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/index.php/2009/02/28/screenworld/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=screenworld Everyday explorations into our extaordinary potential Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bob http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/index.php/2009/02/28/screenworld/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Bob Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:38:50 +0000 http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/index.php/2009/02/28/screenworld/#comment-620 Hi Frank, A very thought provoking article -- thanks for posting it. The more I reflect upon it, the more layers I become aware of. I totally understand his premise that a virtual tour of Rome is not at all the same as physically being there. Those students who feel that the Rome they see on their screens is the real Rome seems like a good parallel to modern scientists who say that the world we see with our physical eyes is all there is and is the real world. In both cases we know that there are entire universes that exist beyond each, available for us to explore. But, the end of the article felt like a "Screenworld bashing". I found myself getting drawn into his arguments until I finished it, pushed back from my computer screen, and saw it was originally published in Psychotherapy Networker. At that point I had an ah-ha moment. Here I was, reading his diatribe against screens, on a screen. Chances are about zero that I'd actually read his article via the paper magazine. And, given my lifestyle, if I was a regular reader of that magazine, odds are 50/50 I'd actually read the online version of it. So his words came to me not via a paper magazine, nor even their online equivalent, but via a blog about his article. Sort of like the modern equivalent of Kevin Bacon's six degrees of separation. As a work-from-home person, I can identify with the isolation on the one hand that using a computer brings, and yet, it does allow me to connect to others, such as you via this blog on the other hand. So it seems a bit ironic to be reading an article bemoaning the ever present screens, while it is only via those screens that I actually gain access to the article. What I did find valuable was his reminder that there is more out there to experience that whatever we're currently narrowly focusing upon. Bob Hi Frank,
A very thought provoking article — thanks for posting it. The more I reflect upon it, the more layers I become aware of. I totally understand his premise that a virtual tour of Rome is not at all the same as physically being there. Those students who feel that the Rome they see on their screens is the real Rome seems like a good parallel to modern scientists who say that the world we see with our physical eyes is all there is and is the real world. In both cases we know that there are entire universes that exist beyond each, available for us to explore.

But, the end of the article felt like a “Screenworld bashing”. I found myself getting drawn into his arguments until I finished it, pushed back from my computer screen, and saw it was originally published in Psychotherapy Networker. At that point I had an ah-ha moment. Here I was, reading his diatribe against screens, on a screen. Chances are about zero that I’d actually read his article via the paper magazine. And, given my lifestyle, if I was a regular reader of that magazine, odds are 50/50 I’d actually read the online version of it.

So his words came to me not via a paper magazine, nor even their online equivalent, but via a blog about his article. Sort of like the modern equivalent of Kevin Bacon’s six degrees of separation. As a work-from-home person, I can identify with the isolation on the one hand that using a computer brings, and yet, it does allow me to connect to others, such as you via this blog on the other hand.

So it seems a bit ironic to be reading an article bemoaning the ever present screens, while it is only via those screens that I actually gain access to the article. What I did find valuable was his reminder that there is more out there to experience that whatever we’re currently narrowly focusing upon.

Bob

]]> By: Laurie http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/index.php/2009/02/28/screenworld/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Laurie Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:44:32 +0000 http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/index.php/2009/02/28/screenworld/#comment-618 What a coincidence to see two versions of this same piece within one Saturday morning hour! http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/component/content/article/172-2009-januaryfebruary/539-screenworld What a coincidence to see two versions of this same piece within one Saturday morning hour!

http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/component/content/article/172-2009-januaryfebruary/539-screenworld

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