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Re: Grumpy Old People Want To Shut Down The Net

webomatica — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:15:33 -0000

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.

Re: Grumpy Old People Want To Shut Down The Net

Urbanist — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:08:51 -0000

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 :)

Re: Grumpy Old People Want To Shut Down The Net

webomatica — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:38:27 -0000

I also read a pretty funny article a while back by artist David Hockney talking about how the iPod has ruined people's ability to see things and hence their appreciation of fine art. Yeah - a great artist, but also old - 70.

Re: Grumpy Old People Want To Shut Down The Net

Ross — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:12:39 -0000

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.

Re: Grumpy Old People Want To Shut Down The Net

tish grier — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:52:02 -0000

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.