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San Francisco, CA. February 15th 2011.


San Francisco, CA. February 15th 2011.

The Internet is evolving faster, becoming multidimensional at an incredible rate.

Where we used to engage on the Internet at a flat level, we're now finding ourselves traversing many different stages in the consciousness of our presence out on the Net.

We used to be able to choose one or two ways to engage. You were a blogger who emailed or a writer who commented.

Nothing was ever simple in the web of the past, but at least we could learn the technical knowledge and then maybe you'd have a shot at successfully punching past the noise.

In many ways, up until this moment many of us were fighting a technical battle. Our work was taking the structures of the Net and then attempt to bend them to our will.

Then suddenly, at the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century, our relationship with technology shifted.

We were no longer creating it, instead, it was creating us.

When your relationship to technology changes in this way, it's time to re-evaluate, restructure.

It's time for beginner's mind.

Over the next few months, I hope you'll watch as this space morphs into a brand new virtual world.

Your first 10,000 hours on the Net are all about push. The next, an edit.