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[new] You are already with me?!? (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#1)
by PeterHuetmannsberger (huetmann <at> violine.at) on Sun Aug 24th, 2003 at 12:23:34 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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This is one article I could happily have done without. Only last night at a party, we didn't get to until way after 10 pm, for various work related reasons "guilt" and "work" and "summer" became a topic.

"I work, therefore I am" seems to have become the norm these days, and every time I want to escape this trap, there is an Internet Cafe round the corner, and being a system administrator amongst other things all the machines in my care pop up in my mind calling for attention. Bad organisation? I could have asked someone else to look after them. In fact I did, but why is it, that I can't take a break?

While 20 years ago, we were on the road, and our friends knew we could show up any time, today we are online, showing our virtual presence permanently. And what better excuse than to go on with our work.

Being offline, appears to be put into a state of non existence,and the postcard from Crete to our friends just takes too long to make sure the world realises we have not ceased to be.

Amongst the administrators in my immediate surroundings the question is being asked, what it would be like to not have a keyboard, and access to the Internet for 2 weeks. Turn off the mobile and be gone. I often wonder if it is possible, even thinkable. But I don't really want to know!

Down at the beach there is wireless access, you know!






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