Transactional Acceleration

Our Tek Era will have ushered a new type of acceleration -- Transactional Acceleration, or Acceleration of Transactions between individuals. I'm sure others have written about this, and I will have to search for the references ... at this point Nonlinear Parker doesn't have the details, but will need to return to this.

Basically, the speed of email / texting/ etc ...creates situations where it seems like the right thing to do is to respond to an email/txt message while the 'flow' is 'on' ... while the feeling is intense ... while all the facts and contexts are at one's finger tips. Tomorrow might be too late ... The day after tomorrow might never come about, if it does, too many things may have happened by then, and all relevance and intensity may have faded.

So where does that leave one ... the pace of communication is accelerated ... one says things one might not have said early on without more deliberation and forethought. It doesn't mean that they wouldn't be said - they might or might not, but if said they would be said after more deliberation ...

However, acceleration makes life interesting ... and opens up a lot of avenues ... some good some bad

Bad things happen to good people
Good things happen to bad people
But also
Bad things happen to bad people, and
Good things happen to good people


Random things happen to all of us ...
some of those random things are good .
and some are bad
and some of them turn out to be not so random


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Totally randoma and nonlinear ... it turns out that the phrase "Transactional Acceleration" appears in Expanding Realism: The Historical Dimension of World Politics By George Liska. And I thought it was all made up [by me] I guess that was too good to be true. In fact too many things turn out to be too good to be true. And that, friends, ... is the real truth of the matter