How the Cloud Pulse May Become "Proof of Life"
January 31, 2014
In an article on Mashable, Adario Strange introduced me to the word "cloud pulse." (He may have invented it.) Updating your activities in social media is not just a method for connecting or promoting yourself. In a strange way, it's a way of demonstrating that you are alive... as in, 'I have a cloud pulse.'
Mashable: Why 'Her' Is the Best Movie Ever Made About the Singularity, 2014-Jan-15 by Adario Strange
If you are reading this, then you are probably already a part of the cloud pulse, the invisible real-time fabric of people-powered data facilitated by social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Through these networks, the habit of continuous partial attention has been transformed from a rude vice to a badge of cultural aptitude that tells the world you are connected, informed and alive.
...most are expected swim upstream and evolve to accept that the cloud pulse is a new muscle broadening our awareness and not the intimacy-hindering nuisance some believe it to be.