Responding to:
1. Can technology progress independently of art and culture?
2. What is the untapped potential of hypertext? Will we ever be satisfied with it?
3. Have internet users lost a sense of privacy? Is blogging a form of narcissism?
Consciousness, bringing to the conscious attention vs the unconscious, where we may not know it and cannot bring it to consciousness. The unconscious influences and affects what we do, some aspects of what we do, we literally cannot know.
The delirium of semiotics. The signifier and the signified, the signifier is like the body. The signified is like the mind, what it means (rational). How easily it is to trick our minds. A sign is a thing and what it means (what semiotics taught us) in words, words can only mean by difference, a word can only mean something not by what it is, but what it is not. By virtue of what it isn’t. There will always be a gap between the sign and what it may mean, not everyone has the same interpretation. We can’t guarantee the intent or the arrival of the message.
Online is only literal we have no voice, tone or emotion. Narcissism and egocentrism are very harsh and full on words to describe blogging’s form, as these two acts both require human emotion and presence, which is not 100% apparent online.
Personal privacy, you do need to know what you are posting, be aware of what information you are revealing,