5/13/09

A taste of divinity

Yesterday I saw a video by Jo I Ito about "Context Not Content" regarding Social media phenomenon and its future potential development into mobile system and access. The man introduced a concept in my head that have haunted me, and I just put a simple post on Twitter saying that there was a sort of "divine" quality to the concept of knowledge and communication without the boundaries of Time /Space....But that is just it....
I do not want want to start an open philosophical debate, and the following comments are my own, the risks they will be read are ultimately slim, so I know I can express my idea in block here without bothering anyone...maybe these ideas will be found by chance, like a lucky dig, maybe not.
The parallels are too obvious to be ignored....we gather in flock around our computer and instead of whispering our fears, our hopes, our dreams...we speak them out loud to the crowd. We ask and answer calls for help and we are suddenly aware, thanks to the magic of technology (sentence sounding oddly like an oxymoron to me!) of everything, everywhere, in real time. Isn't this ability reserved to the gods, having omniscience of all that is happening on the planet, and therefore be able to forecast, prevent or provoke an event?
Were knowledge and technology the part of the "Divine" that is is us we have been told about?
Were the Gods early twitterer? This is getting a bit out of hand, but the original idea was that we are now approaching the keyboard like people were going to church: To connect, to listen, to feel hope and love and get the knowledge to carry on.
This knowledge does not mean we are gods, but that we have the potential to heal, to help to hope. We can still have knowledge and faith, whichever it might be.
We preach everyday in the same sacred halls hosted by the invisible miracle that is the web. Will we become wiser, less alone, more loved thanks to this medium, to this power? I am not sure but I hope so.
So what if social media is the new church, and finally polytheists, we are all gods and flocks.

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