The real, the virtual and we 
‘Today’s special’ is effective participation -the interactive PC is centrestage with most types of data compatible to its memory bank. We are flitting in & out of the REAL & VIRTUAL; multiplying permutations, combinations & possibilities to stretch visual novelty to unimaginable fluidity. What is the status of our comprehension when awash in such a flood?  

Image-processing in the brain drives comprehension, assimilation & a vast interlinking series upon series -selection, rejection, fascination & obsession, as culture bank in the memory, as data bank for creativity; as symbolisers, signifiers, interpretors, as media for understanding and message propagation. A flood of images brings alongwith billions of symbolisers, signifiers,  & mental responses. What are our healthy biological capacities for processing & response? Besides, where is the social regulating authority & censorship? 

Censorship tends to impossibility in such a scenario, not because of the volume to be screened but the PACE of CHANGE in typology & image vehicle- cinema, CD or just a floating image on the ‘Net’. Technology is creating ever newer areas of exploration & abuse- new media faculties, new areas & zones and IMAGE-HARBOURS. Keeping up just your awareness of the ‘New’ in the unfolding Media world is all consuming. Individual discretion has now a challenging role. The positive end is the decentralisation of public opinion to the individual level- through greatly improved communications. When class & authority barriers are broken to irrelevance, every individual is a counter-check linking up with universal opinion & appraisal in interactive information systems. Primary examples are Internet opportunities - polls, chats, clubs, the forum etc., and inter-organisation communication at a uniform level of respect & status. With such elevated communications, there is a phenomenon of global awareness. Censorship, authoritarian policies & opinions of state, religion, class, tribe & group are pushed back. The universal mood is determining, in attitudes, and basic psychological & cultural outlook, a resultant vector of all interaction, adding up both forces & direction of billions of individual vectors. It is also the new impersonal PROPHET. Whether a prophet of doom or a prophet of hope & glory, depends on the abilities of man as a biological animal to cope with such unprecedented evolutionary instigators of CHANGE. 

Refinement against mutation and novelty 
In the ‘Ancient’ & ‘Medieval’ worlds,exposure to a similar set of visual imagery & response over several generations led to refinement of appraisal, taste, artistic application & the quality of novelties. ‘SLOW-AGEING’ throughout History has always produced astounding results in art, humanities & technology. Culture is on a roller-coaster ride at the turn of the second milleneum A.D., and slow-ageing refinement has given way to speedy mutations–the ‘ever-new’ has to fill every moment of the living consciousness. A much more versatile visual gallery opens out before us; but where is the opportunity for ‘Time’&‘Human intuition’ to ferment the ‘End Product’-smoothening up richness? 
  
The agitation against the meditative 
Sustained visual bombardment is agitative to the senses, even though it gives us a dream exposure. Slower times in human history allowed sustained interaction with singular issues – the meditative experience spanned a lifetime, several lifetimes and impressions in several relays of genetic material through the progeny. A fuller human consciousness roamed the visual experience multifold, making the sensory experience literal, spatial, intuitive & also transcendental! Having the best of both worlds, across time, appears too far-fetched to even muse; so only thus far, these musings.