Even If You Initially Disagree, Listen and Think
As you all may have been able to ascertain, I'm a huge proponent of what has been dubbed "Web 2.0" and the increasing availability and spread of free information. However, it would be foolish to blindly accept these technological and social advances as simply "good." Almost all progress comes with drawbacks. For instance, when the internet became the internet, it allowed more people than ever the access to valuable information. On the flip side, more worthless garbage was available as well. I'll take the garbage if, as a whole, a technology benefits the common good (at least until that technology becomes, or should become, obsolete - see petroleum fuel automobiles).
That's the question at least one man is asking of Web 2.0: Do the benefits of 2.0 outweigh the threats it presents to society? Andrew Keen doesn't think so, and I happen to think that hearing his side of this issue is extremely important, so I want to give you all two ways to access Keen's view. The first obviously is the book he wrote called, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture.
Andrew Keen also wrote a manifesto just published on ChangeThis called Against You: A Manifesto in Favor of Audience. You can read it online or download the PDF for free.
Do read what Keen has to say. Perhaps it will make for a better Web 3.0.
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