Maybe we'll make the pictures first, then invent the memories to match, the way news media do. There is always a lag as human cultures take their sweet time catching up to human experience. The Vatican only recently apologized to Galileo, after all. But soon enough our civilization, like President Reagan, will look into the mirror and not know who or what it is. Islands in the Clickstream is a weekly column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology.
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