- ...awakening in time
- Most of the letters and other texts that follow were written without knowing what was coming next for that is how I like to work. To impose a fixed goal at the beginning, and then to subject everything to it, is the mechanical procedure that I am always trying to get away from.
...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), something which, as it gradually happens, is indeed likely to involve everyone, and in unexpected ways, long before the acknowledged event.
- that is all....