Digital disorder vs the Luddite
July 10, 2007 Filed in: The real
world
They've gone head-to-head on this now: an
interesting representation of the "Wikipedia vs
Britannica" debate.
David Weinberer is author of Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. "We're very good at organizing things in the real world ... But ... we always have to follow two basic principles: Everything has to go somewhere, and no thing can be in more than one place. That's just how reality works. But in the digital world we're freed from those restrictions."
Andrew Keen is author of The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture and, as you'll see, says himself he is "a disgraceful fascist luddite communist control freak monarchist failed dotcom entrepreneur".
David Weinberer is author of Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. "We're very good at organizing things in the real world ... But ... we always have to follow two basic principles: Everything has to go somewhere, and no thing can be in more than one place. That's just how reality works. But in the digital world we're freed from those restrictions."
Andrew Keen is author of The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture and, as you'll see, says himself he is "a disgraceful fascist luddite communist control freak monarchist failed dotcom entrepreneur".