The fun is back
July 25, 2007 Filed in: The real
world
It's back again, the exhilaration is, thanks to Web
2.0 - whatever that is. You can become a millionaire just by
working within Second Life (or experience
many things you couldn't otherwise, something of
particular interest to those with disabilities).
You can explore the Earth and everything
on it like never before. Playing World of Warcraft can get
you hired. Your voice can be heard, whether
by video or blog or wiki or twitter, and shared
with half the population of the planet or with a
few friends and family. You have access to more
information and opinion and hyperlocal data than
at any other time in history and combined in
ways that affords so much power. No one knows
what will fly or what will sink, but the ride is
sure a lot of fun... so many things to try, so
many things to do, so many avatars to meet!
Or should we get a first life first? A short thread between IT policy folks on the ICPL list and many of the items on this here my pseudo-blog speak to the glass-is-half-empty potential for problems: threats to privacy, digital disorder, information illiteracy, and on and on.
I admit this is just a setup to point to an article that, shorn of its political nature and specific personalities, is a favorite of mine because it characterizes this issue so well: The Problem with Problem Solvers. Have fun! (But be thoughtful. And hey, I'm a policy person after all.)
Or should we get a first life first? A short thread between IT policy folks on the ICPL list and many of the items on this here my pseudo-blog speak to the glass-is-half-empty potential for problems: threats to privacy, digital disorder, information illiteracy, and on and on.
I admit this is just a setup to point to an article that, shorn of its political nature and specific personalities, is a favorite of mine because it characterizes this issue so well: The Problem with Problem Solvers. Have fun! (But be thoughtful. And hey, I'm a policy person after all.)