Doc's Old School Blog: Heisenberg and conversation

Roughly speaking, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says that you can't know exactly both the position and momentum of something. Put a bit differently, if you know exactly where something is, you can't see where it's going, while if you know where something is going, you can't see exactly where it is. Seems to me this applies in some way to conversation online.#

Or at least I want it to, because where it's going matters more to me than where it is.#

And man, is there an awful lot of where-it-is out there. And, because its where-it-is-ness is so strong, it almost doesn't matter where it's going.#

There's a better way to put this, and I haven't found it yet. But I just want to get it down while it's in my head. Kind of like putting down a where-it-is so I remember later where-it's-going.#