We can never see the thing itself, because there is no thing there. But we can see some of the infinite ways it manifests itself. That grid contained reality in nice neat boxes. But the grid is flexing, morphing like an animation even as we look at it, turning into another of its many possibilities. Islands in the Clickstream is a weekly column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology.
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