Chat Rooms and online diaries
Reaching out to someobody else; to reach out and be touched. This takes many forms. I guess one could equate reaching out to communication. We could very well consider communication as a means of reaching out to something or to someone. Meditation might also be seen as a method where one can reach out to one's internal self, or to the divinity within.
Communications is one of the fastest-growing industries. It has been so for centuries. The power of Rome was largely based on the system of roads that radiated from Rome and reaching all the way to its farthest outposts. A system of roads and outposts equipped with fresh horses enabled messengers to quickly bring reports and communications to the hub of power which was Rome. Various other means have been invented to facilitate the transmission of information including smoke signals, and a series of towers in France which could be freely seen and used to transmit signals from one tower to the other. From the time the telegraph was invented, man's capability to reach ever longer distances and his need for more efficient means of bringing information from one point to the other has never waned.
Wired and wireless, data and information must move back and forth from wherever to whomever reaching places which never could be reached before. It seems that the whole world is abuzz with all kinds of chatter pretty much like the human brain which constantly buzzes and lights up witht every thought fired up from a brain that never sleeps and never stops. Even when asleep, man's brain continues to function, reaching out, sending and receiving messages from neurons and synapses whose very reason for being is to communicate something.
Little wonder then that man re-creates what is happening inside him and brings it outside of him so he can communicate with others who are driven much like him by the need for information. The ever-increasing density of urban areas mimics the ever-increasing populace that inhabits Cyber Space. Chatrooms of all shapes and sizes, where topics of all descriptions are discussed. The internet was originally conceptualized and used to circulate scientific papers to scientists who could not be near physically. A tap on a key and a destination is reached very quickly even if that destination is halfway around the world.
Using their ingenuity and backed up by resources of Government and private enterprise, a simple system to deliver electronic messages was devised which eventually grew in complezity and capability to become the biggest system imaginable. Nothing significant can function without the Internet. Even personal diaries and photo albums are placed on websites for everyone to see. Everyone reaches out.
Communications is one of the fastest-growing industries. It has been so for centuries. The power of Rome was largely based on the system of roads that radiated from Rome and reaching all the way to its farthest outposts. A system of roads and outposts equipped with fresh horses enabled messengers to quickly bring reports and communications to the hub of power which was Rome. Various other means have been invented to facilitate the transmission of information including smoke signals, and a series of towers in France which could be freely seen and used to transmit signals from one tower to the other. From the time the telegraph was invented, man's capability to reach ever longer distances and his need for more efficient means of bringing information from one point to the other has never waned.
Wired and wireless, data and information must move back and forth from wherever to whomever reaching places which never could be reached before. It seems that the whole world is abuzz with all kinds of chatter pretty much like the human brain which constantly buzzes and lights up witht every thought fired up from a brain that never sleeps and never stops. Even when asleep, man's brain continues to function, reaching out, sending and receiving messages from neurons and synapses whose very reason for being is to communicate something.
Little wonder then that man re-creates what is happening inside him and brings it outside of him so he can communicate with others who are driven much like him by the need for information. The ever-increasing density of urban areas mimics the ever-increasing populace that inhabits Cyber Space. Chatrooms of all shapes and sizes, where topics of all descriptions are discussed. The internet was originally conceptualized and used to circulate scientific papers to scientists who could not be near physically. A tap on a key and a destination is reached very quickly even if that destination is halfway around the world.
Using their ingenuity and backed up by resources of Government and private enterprise, a simple system to deliver electronic messages was devised which eventually grew in complezity and capability to become the biggest system imaginable. Nothing significant can function without the Internet. Even personal diaries and photo albums are placed on websites for everyone to see. Everyone reaches out.
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Meditation promotes mental health.
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