‘No natural erosion of information.’ I found this very interesting in Mr. Lessig’s keynote “Speech, Privacy and the Internet: the University and Beyond.’ It becomes more expensive to erase data rather than keep it. That means that ridiculous blog you did in your teenage “emo” phase will resurface during your older ultra conservative phase! This makes me want to get out my paper journal and keep my thoughts to myself. Mr. Lessig’s lecture was well thought out, but I did have a point of contention with his assertion that children of today are better at “triangulating” than their parents. I don’t think this is true. My parents may not have had the Internet, which gives us more sources to triangulate at the click of a mouse, but our parents triangulated with the information they did have. Watch any old black and white sitcom and listen to the father say to “The Beave”, “Son, don’t believe everything you read,” or even had your own parents warn you not to believe everything you see on TV. What we do have over our parents is ready access to more information. Just as less information can constrain knowledge, so can too much information. With too much information comes the need for stronger focus and filtering skills to find the needed information within the noise. I’ve been reading the book Radical Evolution and it makes me think that although, Mr. Lessig, and indeed all of us experiencing the infancy of unprecedented information sharing, are trying to understand and cope with its great societal paradigm shift. Future generations may wonder what’s the big deal with privacy? Whether that is scary or not, the only way to keep if from happening is to disconnect and shut down Google and Microsoft! I don’t see that happening.
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See I disagree, I think we're way better at triangulating BECAUSE we have the internet. They may have used what they had, but I don't think it was very effective and I don't think our parents are nearly as good at using the internet as their children are.
If we want to see who's better at triangulating, we should teach our parents how to use the Internet first and only then decide. After all, in the pre-Internet era, our parents were bound territorially (there's only so much newspapers you could get in the area) and in the post-Internet era many of them just do not know how to deal with the Internet. But I'm sure they possess the same level of intellectual curiosity to pick it up, if given an opportunity.
what the internet has brought to this day and age is globalization ... which leads to triangulation ... in turn giving us an edge over our parents.
yes, while our parents did what they did with what they had available to them, you can't argue against the fact that the Internet is a game changer and it has been a part of most (if not all) of our lives whereas older generations are just getting their feet wet.
lets see how it goes without using the internet for a week? month? i agree, i don't see that happening.
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