Your text makes me think about why, when it comes to a possible future for humans and they will travel to the stars in spaceships, this time could be understood as a kind of transition pain. In such a future I could easily see myself as a ship's crew member - Startrek says hello - and think about the teething troubles of the Internet. In this sense, it is still a child, a very small one that is growing rapidly but is still in its little shoes.
Although my present heart hurts because the technology isolates us so much and I experienced an opposing imprint, I cannot help but find it fascinating. The times of physical exploration seem to be reserved for only a few people, and there I have to ask myself whether I was capable of such things at all. Out of the security and comfort of the Western environment, the uploads of pictures and texts remain. These are a space of their own. You can use it and marvel at it or criticize it. Both is certainly justified.
We all suffer more or less from our modern lives. We have so much freedom (of course still limited), we perfect everything always further and further. But we do not find satisfaction. Unless loneliness, isolation and sorrow can be satisfied differently. If one believes the writings and proofs of past scripts and paintings, we would be thrown back on a much more arduous life. I think then I'd rather live with what is now ...
In a way, the many uploads from all corners of the globe replace travel. It doesn't really work either, though ... . Millions of people who can afford to fly undertake journeys that used to be reserved only for kings or for daring adventurers who sometimes lost their lives.
Would the photos be a perfect holographic replacement (again like the holodeck of Star Trek), would we stay at home more?
I see beautiful films from strange places, it fills me with wings and inspires me. In fact, I don't need to travel to Japan if I can watch "Japanology" on youtube. I am happy that there are formats like this. They show me a world that could be far more beautiful than reality.
I would never have found such pearls in a library and if I did, then at a time when there was no Internet.
There is no stopping it.
I agree with so much you say here.
For people with living imaginations the internet cannot do much harm.
It keeps us busy from eating up our own minds.
yes, very much so. Every thing can be taken by its qualities. It's a matter of choice, on what I like to concentrate, I'd say.
HaHa! When my mind has nothing more to feed me with, I go and look somewhere else. True.