Unprecedented.
According to the nice folks at mw.com it means: : having no precedent : novel, unexampled. In short: Nothing has ever happened like this before.
It's a rather staggering claim in this modern world, and it tends to be tossed around quite a bit, whether or not it's true.
As a society, we tend to hate history, usually because it disagrees with us. There's also a heck of a lot of it going on. Mind you, 1979 was also the year we were focused on Iran and conservatives coming into power in Britain, as well as a few other things, so if you happen to be younger than 35 or so, you'd be forgiven for thinking this was unprecedented. If not, you've been had. (i'll count myself in that number, since i had also forgotten about it.)
So, being an engineer and realizing that there's a problem, how can we go about fixing this sort of group amnesia? We're a highly connected hive mind, some of us should be big enough neurons to fire off a memory or two about this. Yet, we don't.
i'm starting to think that possibly the luddites might have a point that snippet conversations are bad. Hell, i used to update this blog daily, but it's been nearly two weeks since i wrote anything. Mostly, i've been popping info-zits on twitter or being a cyber potato soaking up random crap from Techmeme and Reddit. i miss writing here because it made me think. Perhaps that effort is what made me stop updating.
Well, enough of that.
Time to prune back the crap to historical levels and get myself back on a schedule again. Time to pay attention again and stop being so damn passive. i've got my well to scream into, but there's more to say and do.
Hi, my name is JR, and i'm a recovering info junkie.
