“The millenarian rhetoric swelled with the arrival of Web 2.0. ‘Behold,’ proclaimed Wired in an August 2005 cover story: we are entering a ‘new world’, powered not by God’s grace but by the web’s ‘electricity of participation’. It would be a paradise of our own making, ‘manufactured by users’. History’s databases would be erased, humankind rebooted. ‘You and I are alive at this moment.’” – The internet as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud – Nicholas Carr | Aeon Essays
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“We can only figure out what it means to be private once we figure out what it means to be social. And we’ve barely begun to re-invent that.” – Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — Medium
“Web pages are about connecting. Apps are about control.” – Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — Medium
“Personal is human. Personalized isn’t.” – Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — Medium
“The Web is an impossibly large, semi-persistent realm of items discoverable in their dense inter-connections.
That sounds familiar. Oh, yeah, that’s what the world is.” – Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — Medium