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I describe it as, the internet of books and text became the internet of videos and music. Except that the internet never was books, and was only text due to te
by reaperducer 4y ago
I describe it as, the internet of books and text became the internet of videos and music.
Except that the internet never was books, and was only text due to technological limitations.
When we started networking all the computers together, we (myself included) had this vision of an information utopia where everyone would be able to access all of the information previously locked up in books, magazines, and newspapers.
But that never really happened. Instead, people started making new content — the faster, cheaper, and lower quality, the better.
The old content remained locked up in libraries. Some of it managed to move behind paywalls, but the vast majority of the information — and lessons — learned in the last 500 years has been forgotten because it's not free and easy to access.
We had this naïve vision that with everyone online, people would rally around the best of what humanity had to offer, and we'd all be exposed to the planet's best art, literature, music, and knowledge. Instead, we got mostly the exact opposite of what we set out to build.
- ghaff 4y ago>the vast majority of the information — and lessons — learned in the last 500 years has been forgotten because it's not free and easy to access. I guess I don't really agree with that. Yes, a lot of very detailed information (and primary sources) about things is in research libraries, at least some of which are not open to the general public. But that doesn't mean all that information is lost. A lot of historical information is accessible to the (admittedly relatively small percentage of) people willing to put the effort into digging it up.
- pixl97 4y ago> had this vision of an information utopia where everyone When it comes to new technology and the impact it will have people are almost always wrong. The printing press not only made better books, it created oceans of shitty ones. We didn't have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law at the time to warn us.
- chrbutler 4y ago100%
- nobody9999 4y ago>We didn't have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law at the time to warn us. But we've had Sturgeon's Revelation[0] since 1957, and the idea has existed much longer. Why would one expect anything different just because it's "on the internet?" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law