| Un peu partout sur la toile, le bavardage, grand ennemi de la conversation, meuble l'espace-temps virtuel. Il se passe de thème comme de motivation, il est sa propre fin. Selon Cochonfucius, qui l'a lu dans Littré, l'expression « à bâtons rompus » vient de la technique des tambours militaires et désigne un exercice de batterie volontairement désordonnée. | Idle chat thrives on the Web, killing conversations, filling the virtual continuum with emptiness. It has no topic, it has no end, it is its own purpose. As Wexler once said: A computer could perhaps summarise or anthologise selected controversies in the literature with a thoroughness and objectivity as impeccable as our own. It could invent expensive life-support systems for controversies that in earlier times would long since have been pronounced clinically dead. |