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We, the Web kids; we, who have grown up with the Internet and on the Internet, are a generation who meet the criteria for the term in a somewhat subversive way. We did not experience an impulse from reality, but rather a metamorphosis of the reality itself. What unites us is not a common, limited cultural context, but the belief that the context is self-defined and an effect of free choice.
So…. I think this is a must read for everyone who wishes to understand the web better. Not so much the technical aspects but more the social, and cultural ones. I have only managed to get half way through at the time of writing this however… Something tells me this is bigger than most things out there.
They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of raw potential once was. How perilous, our infancy. How humble, our beginnings. How many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.
Even though this quote from Carl Sagen is about our planet. The pale blue dot. I think this particular quote is of note for a lot of things… and right now it makes me think of the internet… what with SOPA and PIPA along with many other similar actions. How many rivers will we have to cross till we find our way with the web?
Hopefully… not too many more.
