I know that I’ve been posting more narrative than usual lately, but it seems like all of a sudden, a lot more people want to talk about the implications of the Read/Write Web. Go figure.
Today’s installment involves my colleague who menitoned his brother’s problem with Internet sources a couple of weeks ago. The other day, we were talking about the Future of the World when he said “You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole concept, and I think I’ve been looking at it from the ‘1984’ angle where Big Brother comes in and shuts it down when it gets too threatening. But what I’ve come to wonder,” he says, “is if this isn’t more like ‘Farenheit 451’ where the problem is that people don’t care enough to change society even though they have the opportunity to do so.”
The battle for the ‘Net is about to be engaged…
See also: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_03_06_digbysblog_archive.html#111022766019787704
Perhaps, perhaps not.
I fall back on a statement many years ago, made by a wise old friend, Ben (no, not that Ben). Ben said, “The Internet was designed to enable communications during and after a nuclear war. It treats censorship as battle damage – and routes around it.”