NPR: On The Web: Living In The Now

NPR: On The Web: Living In The Now

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Original post on NPR's All Tech Considered Blog by Eyder Peralta. Peralta's quotes Nova Spivack's commentary on the "era of the stream" within this post and then expounds upon the issues raised here:

"The transition from a slow Web to a fast-moving Stream is happening quickly. And as this happens we are shifting our attention from the past to the present, and our "now" is getting shorter.

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The era of the Web was mostly about the past -- pages that were published months, weeks, days or at least hours before we looked for them. Search engines indexed the past for us to make it accessible: On the Web we are all used to searching Google and then looking at pages from the recent past and even farther back in the past. But in the era of the Stream, everything is shifting to the present -- we can see new posts as they appear and conversations emerge around them, live, while we watch." (Spivack)

From past, to present, to NOW- how do we get the future right? Incredibly thought-provoking post, and one that I think people from my generation can really relate to. Wondering how generations X, Y & Millennium will deal with defining future when they have grown up with instant everything. I suppose only time will tell......................