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February 24, 2013, 05:44:41 AM |
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Mission for the night completed. Make a forum alum laugh. Done. The basis of the book I am working on is this: Online Culture is already such a huge part of everyday life, but when will the balance change when online life dictates the policies(cool, not cool, right not right, viable, not viable...etc) of offline life. My theory is that we are nearing that point. Whether it is online friendship, relationship, commerce, currency(why I am here)....whatever the situation is. We are facing a time when what happens online can and probably will dictate what happens in the real world moreso than what happens in the real world dictating what happens on the internet(yes I realize that this has been the case for a while, but the people not deeply involved in the internet do not see it this way). So what I am trying to do is find out what is going to tip the scales to make the "IRL" crowd realize that they are at least 2 years behind the times in most aspects of their lives. The topics we speak about are unknown to them and seem foolish to most. BTC to even the most forward thinking of my friends sounds like, as one of them put it, "monopoly money for grown ups"....For those of us who know better that seems foolish, but it is the way of things right now. Now as for why I am here, well, I hope to learn more about Bitcoin, I hope to see why people have faith in it, and I hope to be a part of it when it turns truly mainstream(yep, I'm a greedy motherfucker like that). But all in all I just really want to learn what makes the community tick, and hopefully add something to a community that, even after a couple hours, has been a great group of people to talk to.
I know I will read this in the morning and scold myself for sounding like a total d-bag asshole. But whatever.
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