virtual telepathy

A post from March of '07 (unfinished)
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I was just thinking about how people used to wish for/dream about telepathy. I think there are a lot of people who still do.. but, really, cell-phones are basically the same thing. Just a bit more vocal. (c: I used to think about telepathy quite a bit and what it'd be like. I don't think about it any more. I think mobile phones do well enough.

Do you ever get those nagging doubts about technology? Those thoughts that maybe life isn't really better for all the "improvements" we make? Cities pack people in, jobs keep massive economic empires running, systems efficiently coordinate food distribution, it's all grand and amazing, but is it better? We create more complexity, more masters to serve, material to aggregate, rules to abide by, and ways to break them. I'm not certain that it is a better life than say, the Masai, who work about ten hours a week, and spend the rest of the time telling stories and simply being with ones neighbors. True, a drought could come and kill many....