Couple thoughts in response to this book review from the Economist.
a) there is always an over-reaction to technology. Didn’t I read in the Economist that churches said cars were evil, when they were beginning to become more popular? Anyhoo.. it’s a rubber band. Everyone was enthralled with every new technology and over used the hell out of it, then found out how to practically apply it and use it to their benefit, and not be owned by it. Social media and the web will be used in this similar manner. Telegraph didn’t kill newspapers, TV didn’t kill radio, social media won’t kill traditional marketing…. a balance will be found.
b) Joe Rogan’s stand up has a valid point: Do not confused the difference between being intelligent and thoughtful with the ability to use things that intelligent and thoughtful people built. If we get smug, we’re doomed.
c) What happens, in the unlikely scenario, that the whole internet will turn off for a couple months? If that could possibly happen, I am sure there are much bigger, more cataclysmic problems than googling how to fix a garbage disposal, but we *are* so used to doing it every day…. could you imagine if people had to start thinking for themselves, be creative, problem solve, and had to *gasp* go to the library for information, once again? I hear a lot of loud, blinking eyelids out there. I am sure it would be fine. It’s in our nature to solve problems.
d) read Snowcrash, and understand a bit more. He was on the money.
e) there will be a rubber band effect to all of this, of course, and you will have nomads go off grid completely. I think this is the age and time that communes will be easier to accomplish, and groups of friends will be creating micro city states to accomplish life without the ironic effect of feeling so isolated while trying to connect to so many.
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