Happenstance or coincidence for the third day in a row I have found myself talking to somebody about this page from the medium is the massage. The contrast between the businessman and all the establishment ideas he stands for and the anti-establishment act of surfing is great. But I was wondering what had happened to the idea of ‘surfing the web’. Its not a phrase you hear that much these days. Is it that we now all search, has google ruined the serendipity of the web, how do you accidentally come across things now?

Apparently McLuhan was also responsible in part for the use of the ‘surfing’ metaphor,”Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.”

‘He seemed genuinely mild, amiable, but also singularly alert, in some skewed way, as if there were something else looking out, around corners, swift and peripheral…..
And the peripheral thing was right there, peering around some inner angle, taking her measure.’ Zero History p.70 & 71

has become…

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The article had a  picture of a laptop on the floor in a room off old street near seren, where I worked. Also talking to design the team about computers and where they are going. What follows doesn’t make sense, but they are just notes. Collage of other peoples thoughts from the past. A hand-me-down dress from who knows where, And where will she go and what shall she do, When midnight comes around.

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