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Being being job is clearly good in some ways for glenn mcdonald, or at least for thos of us who read him; over at his blog he's had a series of fascinating posts about, for lack of a paragraph of description, the possible future of the internet. I don't always agree with him (just most of the time), but shouldn't more people be having this conversation?
(it starts roughly here, for future reference)
(it starts roughly here, for future reference)
CNN had some thing on the future of the internet a little while back. I guess maybe to provoke thought on the subject, but it was pretty stupid (because it was CNN). Internet will be the demise of society as we know it. I gotta get out of this career.
Posted by
Lady K! : |
10:06 AM
It'll also be the demise of the music industry as we know it. I'm not convinced either of these things are intrinsically negative - neither society nor the music industry as currently constituted are any great shakes. I think this is why glenn approaches this kind of thing as almost a moral duty - if we're going to change society so radically, we should make sure it's for the better, not the worse.
Of course, not knowing exactly what your job is, you may well be part of ushering in what Warren Ellis calls the Grim Meathook Future - I don't know. But probably not?
Posted by
Ian |
10:39 AM