…when the world we’re affecting is online, that whole process of meaning and change becomes different. It’s been accelerated, it’s more connected, it’s more dangerous, it’s more filled with misinformation and threats, but it’s also more exciting and more heartening, and it can even be more joyful. The speed with which we can now create meaning together and spread it is amplified and it’s made more fluid. And I think that means we have a higher responsibility to create and spread better meaning and better things…
…being online means that we have more capability to rapidly change who we are and what we mean to each other than ever before…the ways that we create meaning and identity are mysterious and magical and that we have more power to create more than ever in the history of humanity. And I think we should be more intentional in how we use all that power to make better, more meaningful things for each other because this online world is what we choose to make it.
Deiter Bohn is leaving the Verge
Just yesterday I was explaining the etymology of my online handle (dealingwith), which itself has its origin in a different name, which is a phrase, which has its own etymology.