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Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut? | Epicenter | Wired.com (via adactio)
the night has come, to hold us young.
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“ The Internet—meaning everything from email to file trading to voice-over-IP phone calls—was always technically larger than the web, but the web’s mass adoption managed somehow to overwhelm the vessel that contained it. The web became the main attraction; the packets and DNS lookups became the plumbing, essential but invisible. Facebook now threatens to perform that same jujitsu against the web itself. The difference, of course, is that no one owns the web—or in some strange way we all own it. But with Facebook we are ultimately just tenant farmers on the land; we make it more productive with our labor, but the ground belongs to someone else. ”
Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do. By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm.
from Douglas Rushkoff’s ‘Program or be Programmed’ (pp. 84)
I watched this video almost two years ago and it still blows my mind. It’s just as relevant, scary, and eye-opening today as it was back then. A scary yet fascinating observation into the digital world. What’s next?
Whilst I don’t agree with all the facts (there’s no way Wikipedia, an amateur-driven operation, can be more precise than thousands of historians, sociologists, commenators and other experts putting together Britannica), and the numbers (like all statistics, need to be referenced), the growing trends still make me think.
