Conclusion -- The Web of Changes

This semester is coming to a close.I am glad that all the effort rewards.The utmost change of myself I guess is that I am no longer favoring "watching"or "waiting" but prefer "doing" and "making".
The Electronic Monument is an ideal,a reachable goal through effort, even though it is not so easy to realize. In fact, the greatness of an ideal exists also in its distance from the reality, or who cares if it is too easy?
Confronting the same dilemma of "to be, or not to be", Ulmer leads a bold and practical way out in attempting to send a call for the sake of the unchangeable disasters and mean to achieve a collective American spirit, the response from the public.
In his words,"MEmorials do not commemorate ideals, but 'reals,' 'actuals,' untransposed 'abjects.' They take into account not only declared values, but undeclared collective behaviors "(259).
In a way, he situates himself into a "propensity",and "propensity"is not "destiny", as he himself describes (254).
The electracy is not an easy way to go,either.I'm wondering how far one needs to go and how much difficulty one needs to encounter before s/he receives the first fruit.One EM might be easy and may also make a difference in certain circumstance.But remember, that should not be fortune-making. How about if one expects a mass participation and a giant echo? I mean, how can the ideal be deeply rooted in the minds of the mass, thus forming into an irresistible power and promoting actions?
How many changes can the web bring?
Mostly, a great mission with the changing of minds needs the effort of several generations! Maybe it is the awareness and mission of building the EM aroused by the book that counts.
"For this project to pass from a pedagogy and a conceptual critique into a practice of a virtual civic sphere will require its adoption and testing by many other groups and individuals", as is declared by Ulmer.