http://eternallyoptimistic.com/2008/04/17/herds-communities/ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:51:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://eternallyoptimistic.com/2008/04/17/herds-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-368 marcos Sat, 03 May 2008 20:22:34 +0000 http://eternaloptimist.wordpress.com/?p=270#comment-368 Your vision of the internet's future is very akin to my own. I believe the difficulty people are having is what McLuhan had predicted with the rise of any new medium: the content of the new medium tends to be is the old medium. People are still looking at the internet from the point of the current economic model, visualizing more-or-less centralized sites where the user has to find a way to keep some modicum of personal power. Turn over the web and re-visualize the internet from a rich p2p, human-centered model of creative sharing and community building and you start to see the real future and power of the internet. Your vision of the internet’s future is very akin to my own. I believe the difficulty people are having is what McLuhan had predicted with the rise of any new medium: the content of the new medium tends to be is the old medium. People are still looking at the internet from the point of the current economic model, visualizing more-or-less centralized sites where the user has to find a way to keep some modicum of personal power. Turn over the web and re-visualize the internet from a rich p2p, human-centered model of creative sharing and community building and you start to see the real future and power of the internet.

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