I did the math a few weeks ago. I spend 80-90% of my time alone. Solomente. Ok, my dog is with me most of this time, but I do not share physical space with another human. I am in my cocooned environment of my integrated life/work-space.
But am I really alone all of this time?
My past days have been session after session of Skype, Google Hangout, with phone calls, text messages, emails, back channel chat sessions, private network messages, monitoring activity of friends, interacting/responding with/to them. Passive and active interactions. Push and pull. I've had lots of face to face meetings too. Lots of time in the cocoon of my car, an autonomous node circulating around the physical grid.
Always connected. Always on. But not always monitoring. Not always streaming. Not always receiving.
I awoke from my work trance yesterday, to realize I was in my living room. For hours I had been jacked into a virtual workspace with a variety of friend & colleagues. In reality, I was sitting on my couch, with Mr. Dog. But I was more than my physical. My virtual counterpart was elsewhere - in some liminal space.
I am not alone in this space. I am connected to many brains. I extend my own brain tendrils, thoughts, actions, interactions and converse linearly and non-linearly. This nonphysical space becomes more and more real. Abundant for sharing and connection.
So while I spend 80-90% of my time physically alone (with Mr. Dog), I am also a node in the #globalnow, connecting, re-connecting (and disconnecting) from this rich nonphysical space.
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