Blog 4: Everywhere is home when you're connected

In today's digital era access to the internet is virtually a staple. Your home has internet, the coffee shop has internet, even when you're a mile high in the sky you can potentially have internet. With how important internet connection has become for everyday tasks among other scenarios, it seems as though internet connection has taken a tight grip on most of our lives.

I believe that the need for internet connection becoming so evident is one of the main points that Blum was making in his prologue. He quotes science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, "As long as I've got broadband,  I'm perfectly at ease with the face that my position on the plant's surface is arbitrary". How I interpret this quote is that because the internet is everywhere it doesn't matter where you are because you are everywhere through the internet. Blum goes so far as to say to say "we're not merely connected, we're rooted".

On the contrary, Blum also believes that although the internet is a global phenomenon, we all have our own little place within the grid.