Too much information. There's a wealth, an excess, on the internet. This video of Air Traffic Control encapsulates my meaning. It's symbolic of the exchange of online information, and at the same time, what is it doing on the internet? The video is hypnotizing, but what purpose does it serve beyond curiosity? What are we learning here?
Books like Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky make me more optimistic about the future of the web. You can view Clay Shirky speaking about "The Power of Organizing Without Organizations" in this video. Organization seems to grow, even to thrive, from chaos. It makes you proud to be alive during such a marvelous and muddled time. Which is probably how the Victorians felt and everybody conducting secular science during the Renaissance. Onwards and upwards.
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T.M.I.
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I'm really interested in this book, here comes everybody. Have you read it?
Haven't had a chance to read it yet. Just summaries. Too much thesis, lately! The video talk from Harvard is a good introduction.
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