Inner and outer space alike are explored by tele-robotic sensory extensions, revealing the medium in which we have always been swimming. Consciousness is the sea, and the sea is all around us. Connection and community of such depth and complexity that we grow giddy with delight. A network in which we are both nurtured and fulfilled, each node of the web a reflecting facet like one of Indra's jewels, reflecting each of the others and the totality of the whole. Islands in the Clickstream is a weekly column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology.
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