"they were so obsessed with the fact that they could do it, they forgot to consider whether they should" Jurassic Park.
It just says it all. Humans have this huge compex about creating something virtual that is identical to the real world version. Why? why go online to talk to someone, when you can (and should be) talking to them face to face? I don't care that it may be more conveniant or less confronting.
The "one person to many" model of the first media age is somewhat mindless and egalitarian. It hails back to the dark ages of the nobles having all information and power and the plebisites sifting through the mud. Mabey it is because I'm a product of the digital age, but I believe that information should be free to access by all (Thats why I think wikipedia is fantastic). When all information is released, people in power would need to manage without corruption or smoke and mirrors, making use of all resources to the best of their ability.
The internet, in the second age of media, is helping us to achieve this. Our upbringing has been optimised through the internet and so has our transformation of representative democracy. The educated minority is no longer the educated minority: all of us are beginning to become aware of political, social and economic decisions that have to potential to influence our lives.
But is it really doing this for everyone? it is easy for me to say that ive been enlightend by this digital age, being: white, at university, graduated from highschool and casually employed with free flowing access to to internet... but what about others?
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