Philosophy: bulletin boards

Self-tutoring about the electronic lifestyle: the tutor reflects….

Looking for answers, I often arrive at bulletin boards, or forums, where people post questions or attempt to answer others’.

The progress of time you can notice on such sites is sometimes astonishing. Recently I visited a site whose last post, which was exciting news, was from 2004. Otherwise, I often notice a question that’s gone unanswered from two or five years ago.

The internet is immense, with billions of citizens drifting among its sites. Yet, it has a quality like outer space: a question can be sent out but miss the target, to travel forever unanswered.