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Grumpy Old People Want To Shut Down The Net

Started by webomatica · 3 months ago

Whenever you're down on technology and consider writing a grumpy anti-tech rant, the oldsters do us one better.

First, Sir Elton John thinks art would benefit if the Internet were shut down for say, five years. In his opinion, music was way better back in the seventies. There' ... Continue reading »

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  • tish grier

    1 year ago

    you hit it right on the nose about where the money's coming from to support all these ventures...and that's why, if the bubble bursts, it won't have that mustard-gas effect. Plus, not everything Web 2.0's all that bad. Some things are a tad hare-brained, but others will probably make it out of the mess and turn into decent little ventures. It's now a time of sorting hype from reality--of what works and what doesn't....as well as waiting for some geographic areas to get sufficient broadband.
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  • Ross

    1 year ago

    It seems to me like Elton is suffering from the same denial as record label execs. There's a retardedly huge assload of absolutely fantastic music out there, but major labels only seem to be interested in finding the latest Britney, 50 Cent and/or N'Sync. If it wasn't BECAUSE OF the Internet, I'd be stuck listening to that N'Sync shite, or old Zep albums.
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

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  • Urbanist

    1 year ago

    I have to admit I see Elton's point in an abstract way ... kind of like a recent city council woman (in Seattle) who decided to live on food stamps for a week. Certainly it would be an interesting experiment, but it seems about as likely as everyone living on food stamps for five years :)
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Heh, judging from the way people freaked out over the recent internet outage at 365 main in San Francisco, if the Internet went down for five years for some experiment there would be a civil war.
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