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One of the problems with presenting the "History" of a topic is that it is a collection of a multitude of different viewpoints. What is important and what is irrelevant? Each new historic view or story brings with it a shadow of untold and repressed stories.
The Internet offers a new approach, the distributed piece in progress. We each build our own perspective in our own time and way, and allow people to interlace the texts as they will.
Also, the Internet offers a continually revised and constantly changing text. as in a printed book. All points and positions may be in continual dialog with other parts.
In this mode of distributed tasking, we add to the central theme as we choose; personal stories, links to academic histories, sounds, pictures and bibliographic collections.
What keeps a project like this going? Simple the love and care of those involved.
Is love and care enough to create and maintain a cyberspace historical document?
I suggest we try it and see.
Will this ever be anything more than a collection of opinions, something that can be of use to academia, research and general enlightenment and understanding?
Let's talk about it.
And Post your ideas on the ASD Bulletin Board Under "Dream History Cyberdocument Project"
How?
Getting to the ASD bulletin board is very easy. Simply point your favorite Web Browser to:
http://www.outreach.org/gmcc/asd/
which is the ASD HomePage , and select the Button that says "Bulletin Board"
