"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
––Albert Einstein
Where do we exist? And how did we get here?
I believe these two fundamental questions are at the core of every question that must be addressed when considering Next Wave Social Media.
I've just finished the audiobook of Brian Boxer Wachler's Influenced: The Impact of Social Media On Our Perception, and while I am amply poised to begin assimilating the many pearls Brian's wisdom has to offer, I couldn't help but bristle at a few of his opening presuppositions. Both eloquently appropriate and carefully comprehensive, as a whole, I find his post-modern memo to be an all important up-to-the-moment reality check, almost a postmodern memo on a quickly calcifying societal infrastructure wrought of newly trending technological ethos.
As I move forward with my own thoughts on the critical details which in twenty years will spurn an entirely different (and to me now) completely unknown dialog, I find I particularly resonate with Wachler's conclusion and his conjecture on the future of social media. And in order to make that transition we must jump lightspeed into a new modality. And while abandoning things like likes; or following; or sharing; or friending and unfriending may seem improbable; or too deeply embedded into online culture; or even antagonistic towards the goals of monetization in may cases, to my virtual-world view this seems imperative. And that is because these things are pluralistic and NOT benignly so, as they feed into a corrosive pragmatism, one that induces both anguish and overstimulation.
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