Sobriquet 27.1: Well, This Oughta Get the Luddites Stirring
Sara Ledworth of Reuters reports the following:
LONDON (Reuters) - A man and a woman sit side-by-side in a New York cafe, drinking beer, sharing food, and not saying a word. Instead of chatting, they are typing on a laptop about the tunes played through a shared iPod.
"Realising that communicating via typing was far more comfortable ... we conducted ... our date without speaking. We traded headphones back and forth and typed and ordered beer and wine and more food ... The waitress thought we were crazy," wrote singer Amanda Palmer at http://www.dresdendolls.com/diary.
Sounds a tiny bit like something one might expect out of a dystopian science fiction story, no? Read the whole article here.
On the other hand, some guy managed to use his blog to trade a red paperclip for a house in the plains of Canada.
LONDON (Reuters) - A man and a woman sit side-by-side in a New York cafe, drinking beer, sharing food, and not saying a word. Instead of chatting, they are typing on a laptop about the tunes played through a shared iPod.
"Realising that communicating via typing was far more comfortable ... we conducted ... our date without speaking. We traded headphones back and forth and typed and ordered beer and wine and more food ... The waitress thought we were crazy," wrote singer Amanda Palmer at http://www.dresdendolls.com/diary.
Sounds a tiny bit like something one might expect out of a dystopian science fiction story, no? Read the whole article here.
On the other hand, some guy managed to use his blog to trade a red paperclip for a house in the plains of Canada.
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