I’ve put together a first draft of a list of subject areas that I feel have been deeply affected by the World Wide Web over the past 20 years. I aim to investigate these on a fortnightly basis over the next year or so. I thought I’d arrange it from A to Z to get my thought-juices flowing, and to provide a structure that I can dip in and out of as events transpire over an, admittedly, long period of 52 weeks.
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[Telegraph] The Web shows us as we are
Wednesday November 18, 2009 @ 07:45 PM (UTC)Aleks Krotoski
Originally published in The Telegraph
Wednesday 18 November 2009It’s been a few years since anyone has raised the uncomfortable idea that the World Wide Web is not and never will be the global bear hug that its West Coast liberal forefathers and mothers dreamt it would become. They thought the Web, with its open access, decentralised architecture and real world-virtual world crossover would bring about a crazy utopia: it would eradicate race, disability and gender stereotypes. People of different religions, colours and creeds would hold hands, sing kumbaya and our global consciousness would ascend to the next chakra. Or something like that.
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[Digital Revolution] Steal This! Interviews with the Web Elite (Progs 1 & 2)
Wednesday November 11, 2009 @ 11:25 PM (UTC)Over the past 14 weeks, Digital Revolution has placed me in front of some of the most important protagonists in the Web’s 20 year story: the founding fathers and mothers, the movers and the shakers, the newsmakers and the naysayers. I’ve had the unparalleled opportunity to interview every one, often for more than an hour. Like I’ve died and gone to post-PhD heaven, I tell you.
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