Crafting The New
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 06-03-2010
The crystal stream
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 06-03-2010
David Gelernter peers into the ineffable nowness of realtime: Nowness is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the modern age: the western world’s attention shifted gradually from the deep but narrow domain of one family or village and its history to the (broader but shallower) domains of the larger community, the nation, the world. The cult of celebrity, the importance of opinion polls, the decline in the teaching and learning of history, the uniformity of opinions and attitudes in academia and other educated elites they are all part of one phenomenon. Nowness ignores all other moments but…