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Camere foto, video, statii radio, Romania

What are your thoughts on terms like “user friendly” in this part of the Computer Age? I sent the video link to friends and family, but I’m not sure all will follow it. I think my question is more aimed towards how this will affect older generations that aren’t following the latest ‘Net trends, as well as 3rd Worlders that do not necessarily have access to this technology, as you have mentioned.

My sister and brother-in-law are librarians, so I’ve thought a lot about how media will be cross-referenced. I think e-books are starting to bridge the gap, but the problem is, I think, we don’t have digital… notepads, if you will, that effectively mimic ones described in Arthur C. Clarke’s book 2001: A Space Odyssey (some editions have photos of the prop that was used for the Stanley Kubrick movie adaptation). It’s been quite a while since I was in school, and I was just beginning to see how the MLA and APA were creating standards for referencing Web content in hardcopy documents.

To wit, Blackberry devices, PDAs, and Apple’s iPhone seem to be bridging this gap on the tech side, but… they are so small. Most businesses and institutions I can think of prefer to have archives in hardcopy as a backup– the Pentagon is one example. So my last question is, how will Web 2.0 websites change archiving?

Dolores

it seems that we have created a global dialogue which has the ability/potential to transcend the boundries of “nation,” i look at the internet community as a working form of communism, where we are excited to recieve and hand out knowledge to anyone who is willing to learn from us – whether we have a degree or not.

it also seems that only a certain type of person is able to process the amount of information that is available to us through this technology on a scale that makes it work – a lot of the ideas that you present here, and ideas that are presented in an article (also shown in your video) from wired.com by kevin kelly (We Are The Web) can only be grasped by someone who is familiar with this dialogue. the comments you make at the end of your video, i think, are what had the most impact on me – this is something that i have been thinking about as an internet junkie for years, and while all of these ideas have been available to me, presented to me, and mulled over by myself, i can never seem to convince anyone around me that the cybercommunity is possibly the biggest revolution we could imagine, and that some serious re-thinking of life is in order. this is where i admire your work most – you seem tohave a good grasp on the fact that the cybergeneration is the future.

do you think that eventually this will end up creating a union of cultures? we are able to translate anything into any language, learn anything that we want – what we can do with this limitless space lacks any kind of physical boundry which is what we have always attached ourselves to. I have had the opportunity to travel and live with different people, just across the united states, because of connections i have made and relationships i have developed over the course of years of internet communication. Some have said that the internet is “escaping reality,” and that the internet really is irrelevent to global communication and diplomacy… but it seems to me to be slowly strapping together minds from different nations, different systems of thought, and expanding what we are able to grasp as individuals. it seems to me that “newbs” to the internet are stimulated in ways that they never knew before. People who are misunderstood and coined as “addicted to the internet” are just trying to process what they can hold in their head. our minds, and our childrens minds, are being stuffed full of information and ideas. If people continue to connect with eachother, do you think that eventually it could possibly lead to the demise of land-tied nations?

do you think the idea of a sort of “cybernation” would be detremental or beneficial to humankind?

Heh. The first time I typed that, it came out “Oh, what a blog…”

As Carpenter said somewhere in that book, “We live inside our media. We are their content.”

It was very educational living in a place where the social norms were different in many ways. The reason I’m mentioning this is because one of the norms was that by asking a person a favour one was offering them a compliment and strengthening the bonds of friendship.

In many ways this with hindsight reminds me of Web 2.0 culture