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Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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This seems like a reasonable bare minimum for all annotation layers on personal, individual web sites, Ravi.
Our social identities have always been the result of complex and all too often irrational negotiations between social context, individual psychology, and human behavior. It's going to be a real challenge to maintain this awkward and all too imperfect balance -- if we can even call it balance -- moving forward. This become particularly interesting as growing numbers of researchers -- from physicists to ethicists, and every domain in between and beyond -- engage in research that differentiates and contemplates the roles of PAST evolutionary advantage of such human meaning and experience versus FUTURE implications for the identity of our very species; as we move forward into increasingly science-fiction-like terrain of augmented reality, extended cognition, brain computer interfaces, brain machine interfaces, and perhaps even communication features and functionality very much akin to a primitive direct digital telepathy.
By comparison, today's hopelessly primitive pages, symbols, and protocols indeed express the earliest inklings of such inevitable advances, and it's not utterly improbable that we are today setting the stage for more than we can yet fully imagine, much less accurately articulate.
However gradually this process unfolds, to date, all kinds of evolutionary boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred as information becomes our very existential abode, as Dave clearly describes. This isn't the last we'll hear of such debates in a growing number of seemingly obvious -- and what many will surely argue as inconsequential -- contexts. The inverse of what seems utterly obvious to some will represent the only logical and reasonable path, to others. Of course, this much has always been so.
Having been raised in the West, I can certainly understand and share a strong preferences to err on the side of preserving rugged individualism; on the other hand, the experience of having worked with and learned from many others raises just enough doubt for me to question my own biases, however obvious they may seem to me, today.
So, with the deepest and utmost respect for Dave -- for I too have long opined, even ranted, upon this issue of Online Identity Management http://tr.im/identityman -- the following link may represent yet another potential violation of the proposed Web Annotation Policy http://webnotes.net/?PmajRU (note that Mac Safari seems to fail to load the Sticky Note that accompanies the highlighting).
As always, I yield back the balance of my time and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks; or to even entirely reverse my opinion upon grokking new, better, or more accurate information. ;-)
