...awakening in time

...however this has produced something that can seem accidental, even purposeless, and barely relevant to the idea of internet, though when I read it slowly, or repeatedly, I perceive more form and intention than I was aware of as I wrote and assembled its many parts, some as long ago as the 1950s and about half in the last twelve months ... Yes, it does seem to me now that I was being led by experience towards the notions of net-living and net-writing long before the internet had reached its present form. And perhaps all of us have experienced something of this for the process of becoming connected digitally as well as socially is a large change in 'the human condition' (as Hannah Arendt calls it),

 Hannah Arendt, The human condition
 The University of Chicago Press, 
 Chicago and London, 1958 and still in print - 
 to me the most inspiring piece of 
 culture criticism of recent decades. 

something which, as it gradually happens, is indeed likely to involve everyone, and in unexpected ways, long before the acknowledged event.

so now...

that is all....