Chapter 10. Instant Messaging and Chat
I was sitting in my house thinking about the relationship between the dust bunnies in the corner of the room and the layer of dust particles on the TV screen. Some people might just think about cleaning so that the dust would be gone, but then there wouldn't be multiple forms of dust to contemplate.
Philosophically, the different forms of dust begged the question, which came first, the bunny or the particle? Did I even need to know that? Did I need to know anything? I was spinning out of control into a solitary epistemological trap. I had to discuss the bunnies, the particles, the existence with someone. I felt I had made a breakthrough in the previously nonexistent discipline of Dustological Empiricism. ...
Get Linux® Desktop Garage now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
