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shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached

Web 2.0 and/as The Apocalypse: What The Terminator Has to Teach Us About Our Future
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only mean to highlight the disruptive and destructive consequences that have been set in motion by the shift from a life mediated by paper to a life mediated by the screen.
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educators occupy the position now that astronomers held during the 16th century. For astronomers, the choice between models for the universe was neither trivial nor inconsequential; it was definitive.
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we grew up in a world of single authored books, of learned experts in their libraries, of professors holding forth before the silent masses, those days are gone and it is our responsibility to invent an educational system appropriate to the new reality.
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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached

But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.
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irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.
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Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing
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The move from a print-centric to a network-centric world? Is this globally significant? Does this revolution in human communication have a cultural dynamic?
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In this universe, everything revolves around the publisher who controls access to the means of production.
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Web 2.0, which allows all readers to become writers, is the end of publishing as we have known it since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press
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Writers still have their dog-earred personal copies of books ready to hand, but now they also have all been issued keys to the globe's virtual Alexandria Library. 
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the advent of Web 2.0 is the sign of that the apocalypse is at hand and that what lies ahead is a shattering of all the organizing structures of contemporary reality
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