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Re: Friday, March 7, 2003
not to nit-pick, but this language *really* bothers me: "...an agenda that amounts to nothing less than destroying the Net." doc, i know what you're getting at (so i certainly don't misinterpret what you mean), but I am as of late getting a general sense as i surf the net that there is this strain/thread of thought taking shape which feels that "the Net" is somehow the saviour of nearly all things -- and even more, that it should be preserved in the beautiful state that has been attained in the early days of its existence. Now, i do believe that there are certain fundamental attributes on the net that are important to preserve (and we should work to do so), but simultaneously, i recognize that the Net WILL CHANGE (like all things). When we start speaking about the Net being "destroyed," i begin to think that we've concretized the Net itself, when one of the things it has always been best at was taking us through different metaphors themselves. I'm not saying this well....but i fear that hardening, that literalizing, that concretization that can come from "both sides" of this "fight"..... 2cents, ejn There are responses to this message:
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