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.)

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