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- Dradis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think what Maich's article boils down to is an opinion piece masquerading as a balanced journalistic article, all the while making sensationalized claims and irrelevant statements ("The Internet Sucks"? Come on, if that's the level of writing that's required to get published in a magazine like MacLeans, we're in some serious trouble).
- ekkalvia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mark Evans posts an interesting discussion with the article's author:
http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/10/26/2450070.html - ekkalvia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just got back from the bookstore where I read this article, and I needed some catharsis about how much it sucks. I think it should be dugg so more people can read and subsequently refute it.
- goatrandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 Yes, the founders of the internet WERE idealists. Tim Berners Lee imagined a world where smart people could finally come together to discuss important things, without governmental or corporate bias getting in the way. And...
That's exactly what he built. The only problem with it is that the governments haven't realized that yet, and the corporations keep trying to make money on it. They don't learn as fast as we do.
The government keeps proposing these pathetic infantile attempts to 'stop' something they don't, and cannot, possibally understand*, while the white collar business crimals keep trying to find a way to make a buck off of us.
In the end though, the information will prevail. That is it's nature.
*I'm of the opinion that NO ONE over the age of 55 is CAPABLE of understanding it. The idea that everthing is Information, and that all information can be copied is as 'alien' to them as the idea of acid using hippies dictating foreign policy is to our republican lovin' generation.**
** Yeah, that's right... We're the new hippies. Sorry, to have to say it.
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