Proclaimer Blog
What has the internet done for you?
David Wells second session at the EMA yesterday was about the effects of the internet. Sadly, I couldn't get to it all (conference director's plague) and I will have to catch up with the video/audio recording. But I did note down this interesting thought which got me thinking about things webbish. David had been explaining how technology has annihilated distance. You no longer "have to be there to know." Community, he said, has been a real casualty and we have replaced community with proximity thinking that if we are near people we are in a community with them (has significant implications for church life). This is the statement that got me thinking though:
We give the psychological appearance of omniscience because we have technological omnipresence.
Discuss.