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--->From @an.org Wed Nov 19 19:49:37 1997 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:51:25 +0200 (EET) From: . <@an.org> To: [email protected] Subject: "Surfing the Tidal Wave!"
TITLE: "Surfing the Tidal Wave!"
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TRACK 7: User-Centered Issues
Growing up and organizing productive location independent work, free-time and private life on the Internet.
Learning from the global diffusion and giving yourself to it. Technics for effective network use and the possibilities they offer. How to handle separate in-coming and out-going information flows effectively.
A self-study of a 20-year-old who has been actively using and developing computer mediated communication most of his life.
This paper introduces one young lifeline as an extreme example how to get most out of the networks and what kind of life they make possible. It is described how he first started to learn network dynamics on early systems, how Internet turned out to be a job and how, later on, work, free-time and private life were separated into different interconnected entities. This organization of e-mail, www and other Internet service use to support different parts of life is covered in detail. Furthermore it is outlined how, during the last five years of Internet accelerated life, he has been allowed to ride the tidal wave and move free and independently between such areas as education, technology, arts and culture, business, communication, social issues and even politics and to travel the world -- all around the Internet.
The case raises many question which are presented in the following part. For example: Is it wise to achieve location independency by becoming so net dependent? And is this kind of freedom possible because of his personality or is it just something that the Internet boom made possible during the last years? Perhaps like a bubble that breaks as the net settles down and establishes everywhere?
Or, finally, might this be what the networked society on the whole is turning out to look like: after all, it is often said that these times require a variety of skills and just one profession is rarely enough. Also working and studying in parallel are no exception anymore, at least on the net business.
KEYWORDS: "Internet, life-long learning, location independency, network dynamics, attitude nulture, youth culture, growing up"