We are not in the era of communication. Actually, we live in the age of separation and division. As I write these lines, I am in an anonymous apartment on the top of a large anonymous tower erected in the starless sky of the night. I look out the window: I see other buildings as far as the eye can …
From coercive idiocracy to collective intelligence
Internet, or the triumph of idiocracy On the Internet, you can be anything you want. It’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid. Proverbe Internet Voyeurism, scatology, violence, puerile jokes, unproductive polemics: one of the most disheartening things Internet reveals is the extent of human stupidity. However,while it is truethat the Websometimeslooks like a huge psychic dump, what …
The end of Social Networks
In 1996, I was among the early adopters of the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and I chatted for hours with people connected around the globe. At the time, there were not much more than 30 million users around the globe and interfaces were limited to monochrome screens where dialogs were displayed line by line. Still, it was already an extraordinary …