Cognitive Consonance

It's Sunday morning at Potlatch, and a bunch of people are sitting in the consuite watching a video projected onto a screen: a video of an interview with Bill Gibson. I've been watching the video with half my attention, and with the rest of it I've been surfing the Net, checking email, and now posting to this blog.

And while I've been doing this, the recorded image of Bill, twice life-sized, has been talking about how totally mediated people are nowadays, how communications technology has become what he describes as a prosthetic external nervous system. The truth tells itself to the truth, spoken by an electronic avatar of an old friend.