SLA

SLA's service leadership learning group took an extrodonary trip on March 9th. Service leadership learning took part in a great program called "Change Your Clock" that happened in the city of Philadelphia. Taking a trip to a senior citzen home in South Philadelphia SLA students took part in passing out flyers on fire safety and changing your smoke detector battery every six months. SLA students got to hear some really wise words from Philadelphia's fire commissoner as well as do some community service.

I've been reading Michael Heim's The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, looking for a sense of where our imaginations are going as our thought processes and worldviews are influenced by computers. It worries me that people who grow up on computers may lack a classical framework for understanding themselves within the world. Is the web a kind of slippery playground for the mind? Does all the wiki linking and on-the-spot relating with "facts" and people leave us in a Matrix-like fog, where symbols eternally flow through the mind's eye unnoticed?