The Truman Show

Imagine a draft that you wrote after you had taken a week off from the jangle of your net. How would your writing on this subject be different if you had the certainty that you are not made by the technology, but by your habits, just as we all always were, whatever those habits were? How would the substance, as well as the style, of your thought change if you recovered your preceding understanding of the flow of time?

Then imagine a draft in which you have resumed the use of the technology, the hardware and the software, but modified so that your own rhythms of thought were not disturbed by notifications and demands to engage. Imagine that you had the power of the net, but no ads, no distractions or disturbances, but only the ability to do what you want when you want to support your thinking about what you want. This would be my Net. Imagine what you would write if you lived there.

Now, be where you are, just there and nowhere else, for ten small minutes. Just there, just now, meditating in silence. Write again.