Today I received the last print of the Newsweek. From now on all my information (and 5% of the new books) will be electronically, that is to say via Internet. I discarded all unreliable sources like TV and local newspaper long ago. Time wasters. Now all have been replaced by Blogs, Skype Video, Twitter, WhisperNet and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Literature
Blogsphere as Hesse’s Glass Bead Game against the ‘Feuilletonistic‘ world
In Herman Hesse’s final novel The Glass Bead Game, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, he introduces essentially a hypothetical meta game, which has been compared with a “neural network of cosmic mind”. This gave me the idea to probe today’s social and knowledge networks of the Internet as it were The Glass Bead Game, … Continue reading
How to write a great blog
Well done. Common sense, but concise. The article hits the most important point: How the inherent and direct feedback blogs offer can be used to learn, improve and fine tune. But there is more on that. We are embracing three megatrends in the Brave New World of digital media, science, art and politics. shift from … Continue reading
Steppenwolf and Abraxas – Hermann Hesse and C.G. Jung revisited
The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian Herman … Continue reading
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