Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The amorality of Web 2.0

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The amorality of Web 2.0: "Like it or not, Web 2.0, like Web 1.0, is amoral. It's a set of technologies that alter the forms and economics of production and consumption. It doesn't care whether its consequences are good or bad. It doesn't care whether it brings us to a higher consciousness or a lower one. It doesn't care whether it burnishes our culture or dulls it. It doesn't care whether it leads us into a golden age or a dark one. So let's can the millenialist rhetoric and see the thing for what it is, not what we wish it would be."

Read the entire essay -- important issues/questions

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