World Wide Web (another myth?)

Recently returned home from assignment at Petra and found that this week’s Newsweek cover story (“iCRAZY”) is by an acquaintance I met this spring, Tony Dokoupil. We both enjoy college baseball as it turns out. Anyway, the subject of too much and information overload is an interesting facet of modern life. There are certainly benefits to being connected, but some negative aspects as well. I wonder if the Jordanian life-expectancy has to do with food, exercise and lack of self-induced stress (at least at western levels)? One thing I noticed while in Jordan was that many of the websites I subscribe to were not available: iTunes, Netflix, Major League Baseball. For some reason, even though I had an up-to-date account they couldn’t be accessed from Jordan. So, I wondered (much like my trip to China): is it really a world wide web, or the western world again saying “we are the world”?

https://www.geekwrapped.com/archive/is-the-internet-making-us-crazy-what-the-new-research-says

Tony has been researching a story on ethnographic collections: artifact acquisition and marketing. I’ll let you know when it is available.

            Some of the training provided at Wadi Musa was Geographic Info Systems (GIS) for the Petra Development & Tourism Region Authority. One of the specialists, Richard Menicke from Glacier National Park, provides us this look at elevation plots on our trip from Wadi Musa to Wadi Rum to Aqaba back to Wadi Musa. Thanks Richard…