NEXT WAVE SOCIAL MEDIA:

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." 

––Albert Einstein 

   

    Where do we exist? And how did we get here?

    I believe these two fundamental questions are at the core of every question that must be addressed when considering Next Wave Social Media.      

    I've just finished Brian Boxer Wachler's Influenced: The Impact of Social Media On Our Perception, and while I have amply already been poised to begin assimilating the many pearls of Brian's wisdom, I couldn't help but bristle at a few of his opening presuppositions, as I believe perception, in all its forms never lies –– even if it fails to offer one the truth.

    Eloquently and appropriately comprehensive, as a whole, I find Mr. Wachler's postmodern memo to be all important, an up-to-the-moment reality check, carefully grafted onto the quickly calcifying societal infrastructure wrought of a problematic newly trending technological ethos.

    As I move forward with my own thoughts on the critical details which in twenty years will spurn an entirely different (and to me now) completely unknown dialog, I find I particularly resonate with Wachler's conclusion and his conjecture on the future of social media. 

    And in order to make that transition we must jump lightspeed into a new modality. And while abandoning things like likes; or following; or sharing; or  friending and unfriending may seem improbable; or too deeply embedded into online culture; or even antagonistic towards the goals of monetization in may cases, to my virtual-world view this seems imperative. 

    And that is because these things are pluralistic and NOT benignly so, as they feed into a corrosive pragmatism, one that induces both anguish and overstimulation.

Techgnosis is a hybrid form of cyber gnosticism, a meta-dialog lodged deeply within our collective apapsyche––a reflective expression that might be best referenced as a world soul.

Together, we stand at the threshold of the Metaverse, instinctually, and for good reason, we, remain both apprehensive yet ravenously hungry for whatever this new offering of technology will bring.

The fact remains, however, that our technological-evolution has far surpassed our biological-evolution, thus the dramatic tension which sets the stage in the unfolding of the next act of our human saga.

In the Age of Unreason

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    This is NOT a blog.

   

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I am NOT a blogger.

I AM a doorway.

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THIS is an oracle. 

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    Techgnosis is a hybrid form of cyber gnosticism, a meta-dialog deeply lodged within our collective apapsyche – a reflective expression that might best be referenced as our world soul.

Together, we stand before an oddly familiar threshold. Instinctually, and for good reason, we remain both apprehensive yet ravenously hungry for whatever new offerings technology will bring us.

The fact remains, however, that our technological-evolution has far surpassed our biological-evolution, thus the dramatic tension which sets the stage in the unfolding of the next act of our human saga.

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    As an oracle of the modern age I am painfully aware the fate I commission is that of my own. Yet the funny thing about fate is when observed from increasingly greater distances, the difference between what is mine and what is yours vanishes.

This means for a modern psuedo-self-ordained oracle like myself, the guidance, insight and warnings I put forth, are distinctly my own, a word to the wise.  

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    As a species, the greatest threats we face, collectively, while NOT exactly those of the stone age, are still the same wrathful and unpredictable forces of nature. Yet, as it clearly has, if the sum total of human achievement over the past two centuries, paradoxically, has only escalated and NOT lessened these threats––what does this say of the human condition? 

We've got a long way to go baby.