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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10642697

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"The internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be," according to Harvard academic Ethan Zuckerman.

Mr Zuckerman was speaking at the TED Global (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference in Oxford.

He said that the web was now contrary to the original utopian vision and users focused on information from a handful of wealthy countries.

"It's making us 'imaginary cosmopolitans'," he told delegates.
Author:  pcernie [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
I personally get more info from different sources than ever before, but lets be honest, who has the time or inclination to go 'exploring' really? (me included)

Also, the world's always gone down the tribe route...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
I get my info from a wider range of sources, though they must be in english for me to read. I always had wide reading sources so it has not been a sea change for me. I have a couple of sites that allow me to explore a little further afield but unless the headline appeals I go past.
Author:  JJW009 [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
I get a lot more international porn than I used to before the internets.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
JJW009 wrote:
I get a lot more international porn than I used to before the internets.

Yes always beats finding it under bushes which used to be the old way for teenagers.
Author:  forquare1 [ Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:57 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
I read more that I ever did before, but then again I may have done as I got older anyway, without the internet. Actually, I think the 'net has enabled me to find more random facts, while generally narrowing the amount of news/information I take in. I don't know what is happening in the greater world, I know what is happening in the computer/tech industry. Things like the Haiti earthquake I didn't hear about until tech sites started reporting about it.

I think the 'net has been 'contaminated' too. Once upon a time it was a network of universities and military bases built on trust. Today nobody trusts anybody if they know what's good for them. We still have technologies from those "I trust you" days, things like SMTP which doesn't do authentication (you can add it on, but it's not a default or part of the standard) because once we trusted each other to use it properly...
We can't do anything about this, unfortunately :(
Author:  belchingmatt [ Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
Amnesia10 wrote:
JJW009 wrote:
I get a lot more international porn than I used to before the internets.

Yes always beats finding it under bushes which used to be the old way for teenagers.


:lol:

I wonder if that still happens, and if it does will it be on a disc.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
belchingmatt wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
JJW009 wrote:
I get a lot more international porn than I used to before the internets.

Yes always beats finding it under bushes which used to be the old way for teenagers.


:lol:

I wonder if that still happens, and if it does will it be on a disc.

If they are on discs won't they be found on trains now? ;)
Author:  mikepgood [ Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
surely its all iPorn
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