yeah, I read it.

I could not resist, but I did read it. Like Jen says, it ought to open some interesting discussion. I resonate with the notion that some of the things that we make a lot of hay about now (iPhone vs Android, blogs vs wikis, Blackboard vs anything else) ought to become less of a frontal point. Language is a funny evolving thing, but I can see some of the verb/noun shifts you describe.

The question more interesting is, how will our actions change?

I struggle a bout with the marking a point as “Post Digital” like digital technologies will cease to be developed and be where they are now (like an art movement that fades away)– it does not seem the intent of the paper, but that is the trapping of the language. What is “post” is not digital technologies, but perhaps the novelty of them.

But IMHO it will continue to be a moving target that will challenge our ways, so even if microblogging and messaging become ordinary everyday things, something else is going to be there to confound most of us.

I already feel mostly in the place you describe, and I am a tool geek, but I rarely do not have a layer of thinking about the people and sociality of the things I am toying with.

Another dimension to perhaps consider is (and this seems hard) looking in more dimensions than time (in the future) as there is the uneven propogation of these “things” among a population, so there is the tension or mis-alignment of those that “get it” and those not there yet. By the time my Mom is regularly twittering on her mobile phone (which I forecast at about 8 years out, sorry Mom) where has the rest moved on to?

I’d push back on the notion that specialists/gurus have “hijacked” anything; it seems a natural step in the progress of un-known territory. And I would suggest, without any evidence beyond my gut and observations, that there is a huge, silent, subsurface fear (fear of new things, fear of not understanding, fear of “looking stupid”) that persist in a present state of norm that people resist experimentation and trying new things.

But I totally grok the idea that we may soon drop all the “e-” in front of things, that the “e-ness” just becomes a part of the things.

Looking forward to the next rev.