Comments for Four sides http://foursides.wordpress.com An outsider's views on technology and the Internet Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:56:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Immersive Age versus Information Age by Best of the Past: Living in the Immersive Age Now « Isolated http://foursides.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/immersive-age-versus-information-age/#comment-3 Best of the Past: Living in the Immersive Age Now « Isolated Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:56:30 +0000 http://foursides.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/immersive-age-versus-information-age/#comment-3 [...] my initial post about the Immersion Age, Steve left me this little comment: …I’m not convinced [that [...] [...] my initial post about the Immersion Age, Steve left me this little comment: …I’m not convinced [that [...]

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]]> Comment on Immersive Age versus Information Age by Steve http://foursides.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/immersive-age-versus-information-age/#comment-1 Steve Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:39:39 +0000 http://foursides.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/immersive-age-versus-information-age/#comment-1 Nice post. Sun has been pushing this idea of there being a difference between the "Information Age" and what they're calling the "Participation Age". I'm not convinced, mostly because if you read about the early Internet it was always supposed to be fully participatory - see When Wizards Stay up Late. To me participation and immersion are just continuations of the trends, this is all still part of the Information Age ... we're only at the beginning. I agree that there is now MORE media, or at least more channels. But if there is a general inability to deal with it then it shows that we haven't adapted yet. So, information overload is a sign that we're not fully immersed in my view. Hopefully, agents and filters will develop to help us out. And, if you look at the problem/career pages of any newspaper you'll find that the feeling of disconnection/frustration is a universal truth of humanity :-) Nice post. Sun has been pushing this idea of there being a difference between the “Information Age” and what they’re calling the “Participation Age”. I’m not convinced, mostly because if you read about the early Internet it was always supposed to be fully participatory – see When Wizards Stay up Late. To me participation and immersion are just continuations of the trends, this is all still part of the Information Age … we’re only at the beginning.

I agree that there is now MORE media, or at least more channels. But if there is a general inability to deal with it then it shows that we haven’t adapted yet. So, information overload is a sign that we’re not fully immersed in my view. Hopefully, agents and filters will develop to help us out.

And, if you look at the problem/career pages of any newspaper you’ll find that the feeling of disconnection/frustration is a universal truth of humanity :-)

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