carbro Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 From the cover: You. Yes, you. You control the information age. Welcome to your world. Unfortunately, the reflective hard copy doesn't translate to the web, so I can't see what you look like. Says Time: To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. . . . But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes. The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution. Good job, BTers! Link to comment
Giannina Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I look great! And I like the whole idea. Giannina Link to comment
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