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Web No Longer Eclectic?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the marching-in-lockstep dept.

khog writes: "The Sunday New York Times had a front-page article entitled, "Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to Mundane." The article says that "[t]he Web was supposed to subvert corporate domination of culture by giving a global soapbox -- or printing press, or television station -- to anyone with a computer and a modem" and takes off from there. Was the Web ever "supposed to be" anything, much less a subversion of "corporate domination of culture?" Isn't the reduction of idle surfing and the increase of a "more direct, predetermined approach to the Web" just a "reflection" of an educated user base that knows what it wants?"

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  1. Intelligent People by nerdin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been working with it since early nineties, and my older son began to read on screen before than on paper.
    He's now 13. A quote from him, six months ago:

    "Internet is no longer carried out by intelligent people. Now it looks too much like TV".

    'nuff said.