Hardy 2.0
Library 2.0
About a year ago I read a book titled Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It was published in 1992 and is considered by many to be one of the seminal works of predictive cyber-punk fiction...the main character also has one of the best names ever.
In this book the writer describes a distopian future where the mafia openly runs a chain of pizzeria's, the metaverse (think Second Life...almost too much so in fact) is accessed via virtual reality gear and the Library of Congress and the CIA have merged into a single entity.
And that is what I thought about when i was reading about Library 2.0
Here's my only issue with the various perspectives provided. They all seem to be verbose ways of saying "keep up with the times or be left behind". I agree with the sentiment but think that the Debasing article is probably more reasonable.
It's going to take me a while to properly analyze and synthesize what I've read but my initial reaction seem to parallel my thoughts prior to reading all of this. While many of the Web 2.0 tools are very useful and provide ways for people to interact and share information faster and most accurately than ever before it does not mean that the information being shared is useful OR that people NEED that information.
A couple years ago I was taking a history class. The teacher made the statement that a single copy of the NY Times contained more information than the average person encountered in his entire life time 1000 years ago. That's good, I guess, but the business of information require constant filling and of the proper type.
Yeah...this isn't really going anywhere. i read all of the perspectives very quickly and with interruptions. I'm just going to have to let it run around in my head a while. If i come up with anything I'll come back to this.
~0ps
About a year ago I read a book titled Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It was published in 1992 and is considered by many to be one of the seminal works of predictive cyber-punk fiction...the main character also has one of the best names ever.
In this book the writer describes a distopian future where the mafia openly runs a chain of pizzeria's, the metaverse (think Second Life...almost too much so in fact) is accessed via virtual reality gear and the Library of Congress and the CIA have merged into a single entity.
And that is what I thought about when i was reading about Library 2.0
Here's my only issue with the various perspectives provided. They all seem to be verbose ways of saying "keep up with the times or be left behind". I agree with the sentiment but think that the Debasing article is probably more reasonable.
It's going to take me a while to properly analyze and synthesize what I've read but my initial reaction seem to parallel my thoughts prior to reading all of this. While many of the Web 2.0 tools are very useful and provide ways for people to interact and share information faster and most accurately than ever before it does not mean that the information being shared is useful OR that people NEED that information.
A couple years ago I was taking a history class. The teacher made the statement that a single copy of the NY Times contained more information than the average person encountered in his entire life time 1000 years ago. That's good, I guess, but the business of information require constant filling and of the proper type.
Yeah...this isn't really going anywhere. i read all of the perspectives very quickly and with interruptions. I'm just going to have to let it run around in my head a while. If i come up with anything I'll come back to this.
~0ps
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