There is a part of me that worries I am simply feeding my own echo chamber by clambering to those like Clive Thompson and David Weinberger, while avoiding the Turkle’s etc … I don’t disagree that technology has had a significant impact on our world, but I agree with you that much of this is not new, the little device in my pocket only amplifies this in my mind.
I have been doing a lot of thinking of late about blogging and feel that I was blogging along time before I had a blog. For example, my tendency to scribble down thoughts and ideas on random bits of paper has now simply been turned digital. Maybe I should be having those thoughts out loud, but I feel that sometimes they need incubation time before being released into the world. Even then they are only a beginning.