M Sinclair Stevens #signalflare

M Sinclair Stevens #signalflare

Originally shared by M Sinclair Stevens

Google Plus: Ghost Town
After feeling devastated by the April 2012 redesign, and in response to Peter Strempel, I wrote these words of encouragement, which I share now as we move onward, to new frontiers

"On Google+ there is a sense (even if it's only imagined) that we are building this place together. Explorers and pioneers and settlers. Isn't that why we talk about it endlessly?

Concerning the work that we've all put in to building communities on Google+, Peter worries about "the ominous threat of impermanence, of being edged out altogether, and of losing any benefit that might have accrued to the significant unrewarded effort that went into building a small corner of the Google imperium."

In the family where my character was formed, that's pretty much life. I've descended from a long line of people who made something out of nothing, who struggled with the insufficient tools, who succeeded for awhile, lost it all, and were forced to start again.

So I focus on the process of building and accept the idea of impermanence. Will I be sad when it's over? Of course. Will I think my time here was wasted? Absolutely not."

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from
M Sinclair Stevens: New Frontiers in Cyberspace
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118011560178264222649/posts/91QsJZ8zMw3

Peter Strempel: The Amerikaner Hypothesis
https://plus.google.com/110695872689494369839/posts/cvTRmBoJJ8a

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A shout-out to the many people here who opened my eyes to new ways of seeing. Thank you.

To The International League of Disapproving Looks and the Heroes of Brevity
Peter Strempel, nomad dimitri, Mee Ming Wong, Cass Morrison, Brian Titus, Marianne Tamminen, and the late Dieter Mueller


And to those who engaged fearlessly
Gideon Rosenblatt, George Station, Jodi Kaplan, Susan Stone, Meirav M., Ron Pemberton, Armida Evony, David Amerland, Giselle Minoli, Youssef h4c2s2fo2u2yea, David Brin, Yonatan Zunger, Kee Hinckley, Mike Elgan, Alex Schleber
Marie Hélène Visconti, Alex Lapidus, Mari Thomas, su ann lim, Keith Wilson, Rugger Ducky, Aaron Wood, John Blossom, Shava Nerad, Tejas Richard, Terence Towles Canote, Grizwald Grim, and Edward Morbius

I'm sure there are many more I've forgotten. Many who are already gone. To our next adventure...