In history class, they told you how we moved from being nomads to sedentary folks. Well, now we turned into online sedentary nomads and it is making history.
We used to be readers; we became browsers. We used to be slow enjoyers of the “carpe kind”; we became lovers of the multi-repeated fast satisfaction. We used to do word of mouth and human conversations; we added the fiber-optic digital touch to it. We had it personalized and local; we turned on the individual and global button. Nowadays, we digitalize, numerize, fiber-optize, electronize, tetraphize, and connectize. You can’t escape it, and you can’t claim you’re not part of it. You’re a web who’s on the web, spinning its web, connecting to other webs, webbing the web, for web’s sake! In history class, they told you how we moved from being nomads to sedentary folks. Well, now we turned into online sedentary nomads and it's making history. Once you sit your laptop somewhere, you navigate through time zones hooking up with Europe and North America at the same time, surfing the networked ocean of never-ending stream of information enjoying the ludic or entertaining, hand-powered, sense-stimulating, no limits, all at your fingertips. Log in. It got into our lives, in the form of new vocabulary like “facebook me, text you, twitter him, digg it, page me, google that, msn this” and along with the geeky acronyms suc...
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Born in Africa, Mediterranean, Morocco, lived in Canada, Egypt, and currently in the baguette & wine land, in Paris.. working for the financial software company which carries no match for my soul and spirit. Instead I favor writing, reading, and interpers
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