Comments on: The Future Will be Blogged http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3840 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jim Clarke http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3840&cpage=1#comment-4763 Jim Clarke Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:27 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3840#comment-4763 In my opinion, blogs are not a revolution unto themselves, but just a part of the communications revolution that started with the basic internet and is expanding exponentially! I believe this to be a tremedously positive thing. Balkinizing is really a symptom of a lack of communincation, not too much communication. It is certainly possible, but increasingly more difficult to close out all other points of view when surfing the net. While the average user may visit the same sights for years, eventually they will follow a link to something new and be exposed to new ideas. 100 years ago, a person could be born, live and die of old age without ever hearing opposing viewpoints or a different world view. Not any more. The biggest problem now is too much information. How do we know what is good information and what is bad? Again, I believe that this too will become easier in time, as search engines mature to the point of not only providing links, but providing context. We will be able to see all the evidence and glean all the opinions in a realtively short period of time, then decide. Certainly there will be issues, but the direction communication is going is positive and unstoppable. It is a very exciting time to be alive! In my opinion, blogs are not a revolution unto themselves, but just a part of the communications revolution that started with the basic internet and is expanding exponentially! I believe this to be a tremedously positive thing.

Balkinizing is really a symptom of a lack of communincation, not too much communication. It is certainly possible, but increasingly more difficult to close out all other points of view when surfing the net. While the average user may visit the same sights for years, eventually they will follow a link to something new and be exposed to new ideas. 100 years ago, a person could be born, live and die of old age without ever hearing opposing viewpoints or a different world view. Not any more.

The biggest problem now is too much information. How do we know what is good information and what is bad? Again, I believe that this too will become easier in time, as search engines mature to the point of not only providing links, but providing context. We will be able to see all the evidence and glean all the opinions in a realtively short period of time, then decide.

Certainly there will be issues, but the direction communication is going is positive and unstoppable. It is a very exciting time to be alive!

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