Introspection; Technology and Identity

After reading Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Your Emotional Future and Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines, it is difficult not to review some things I've seen over the past 20 years. It may be no mistake that an old friend from DeVry and I connected recently after 20 years, or that the ads for DeVry that I see on cable late at night offer a degree in Game Design/Programming (whatever) - which is what I wanted to do 20 years ago. Maybe it is no mistake that my path has taken me into multilingual and multicultural environments, even formally so, forcing me to learn languages I condemned in secondary school. Maybe it is no mistake that I write more than program computers these days. So better to get it out, write it, and move on. That is what this is.

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