Comments on: Purple Boxes, On the Highway

By: It’s A Matter Of Approach « Loaded Learning

It’s A Matter Of Approach « Loaded Learning — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:38:50 +0000

[...] of this reminded me of a post Martha recently wrote where she talked about the purple boxes that she had seen on the side of the highway. For her it [...]

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:20:12 +0000

I saw my first purple box today along the highway today. I only saw one, and out of the corner of my eye, so I was wondering if it was some sort of art project – the next Christo artwork, but no. Your need to find answers has destroyed that fantasy.

I worry about Terry’s instant access to answers via iPhone – I mean, you had a good discussion/argument with your husband over what these things were. If you can get the answers too quickly, too easily, we don’t even need to think anymore.

Or come up with the best conspiracy theory about how they are alien surveillance posts, and the aliens planted those 15,000 web sites on the internet to make everyone believe they were just some insect tracking system. You never know…

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:34:22 +0000

Lately I have noticed that on family trips when we are off grid, some question will come up (like:what was the name of that actor who…) and after a moment of deciding that no one knows/remembers, we say “well, we’ll look it up when we get back to the internet; no sense wasting time.” And now that I have a data plan on my iphone, we are only really without the internet when I don’t have cell coverage (like on Mount Rainier!) Sometimes I wonder what that is doing to our memories, though…

I look forward to your promised post on: lifelong learning, utopian visions, and the weight of institution.