Off the Cyber Shelf

First off, I guess I should start with a retraction from the last post. The more I thought about it, the more I realized maybe just how powerful the Internet truly is (thanks to Strata). My main point, not to try to explain myself, was that I think Bill Gates is out of focus when trying to plot out the future of the human race. In the big picture, the Internet isn't so much a technical revoultion as a conceptual one. That, in it's own way, is something that might raise more questions or debate. But I don't want to make this blog boring with lots of theory talk. So, I'll post more on this debate on the media blog: Off the Media . Though I will say, when reflecting over it, that the Internet was a pretty amazing revolution for a 21-year-old college student (1994) who use to love to go into the library before he went totaly blind (June 11, 1989); when I logged onto the Internet for the first time to the Gutenburgh Project and listened to my computer read through the complete works of Plato and Aristotle, for the first time in six years listening to something other than the limited selection that Recordings for the blind recorded for my classess, mostly liberated by the fact that I could choose at will what I could read. Anyways, enough for now, as there's much more important news to share.

This past week I learned of a reunion that I had been looking forward to since the news of their break-up. Rumors seem to have more wieght as The Police have started running through their old set list.

When I think back to my life before I went blind, there are few images that have withstood the laps of time. One of those images was watching Stewart Copeland, Police drummer, through his head in the air as his hands moved like a ballet over the heads of his four-piece Tama drum set. In Christmas of 1987, I had asked my father for a set of drums. Instead, I got my first electric guitar. Those who know The Police, know that Andy Summers lacks in theflash appeal like Copeland. I eventually setteled for the second best, as I saw it, and I started playing the bass (no need for a Wiki link).

I've spent much effort in trying to convince one of my music students that there was a time when Sting actually could rock to a younger generation. That generation has, of course, all grown up now. But some of us would still like to think that we can still rock, so long as "New Rock" stations still play The Clash, Iggy Pop or The Police.