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Roxas_XIII
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05 Dec 2008, 5:59 pm

Comcast News Article

Thought this would be interesting as a discussion topic for us aspies. I'd stay but I have a cast call for the muscial I'm in in about 5 minutes, so I gotta burn rubber across town...


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05 Dec 2008, 6:24 pm

This article was in the local paper. I found it annoying because I would actually get less social interaction if I didn't use the Internet, and that's not because the Internet killed my social skills. Most of my peers in high school spend a significant amount of time on the Internet, particularly MySpace, but it revolves around social interaction with their real life friends.

I remember some comments on this site about a similar article, saying that it could give Aspies more social interaction and the more neurotypical less, evening them out a little.



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06 Dec 2008, 7:21 am

Where else has reading comprehension lead to Wiki?

Information processing is getting deeper, for unlike other media, the Internet has depth of facts.

My magic box answers all questions.

As for social skills, the point of that is finding a peer group, and the Internet gives a world group.

People to people is location, age, sex, money, dependant, the Internet filters that out, only content counts.

There is still a need for in the flesh, you can do some great stuff with flesh, but for mental development, the whole world is better.

It also think that dealing with many others on the Internet has developed my social skills beyond people like me in my neighborhood. I hear the voice of groups that I would not meet in my world.

While computers and Internet access are everywere, a fifth of the planet, a much smaller group lives in cyber space. These digital pioneers are creating a new world, and it is not all facebook.

Effective E-Commerce is more than a web page, it is being able to think in an invisable medium of thought. From home with a very low overhead I market to the world. It is the first new direction of business in ages. Single item shops make money, and have access to all the customers.

Information, business, thought, all without travel, or having to read facial expressions. Some of us were made for this world.



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06 Dec 2008, 3:36 pm

Our brains are constantly being rewired; this is called learning...;)



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07 Dec 2008, 2:57 am

the technilogical tendrils searh the deepest of my nuerons.