The Cultural Energy Crisis
posted by Ryan McManus 
on May 08, 2009 at 02:08 PM
filed under: Internet Culture
Ryan McManus
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filed under: Internet Culture
An interesting article (or editorial, really) about the possibility that technology, which once fueled our cultural revolutions, is now slowly causing a breakdown in the way we share and experience (comparison by way of Rave, of all things):
Money quote is this:
Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.
Anyway, worth a read. Via Bruce Sterling.
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