modern life is rubbish...
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- Kiko0
Have to agree with you there Ian, been thinking the same thing myself.
Its on every site, on the metro every morning front page, on all TV news programs. The BBC has even crafted a logo for Credit Crisis with the r turning into a down facing arrow.....clever ;)
Fear of a recession will stop spending and so the cycle continues.
- Greedo0
I'll sms you my thoughts...
- kezza_20
thank you...
- cannonball0
the internet - a lot of talk and not much interesting to say.
- kezza_20
Agreed, even Tim Berners Lee said:
Berners-Lee's proposed answer to this "problem" seems to be some kind of centralised accreditation scheme for websites, and readers incapable of independent critical thought. "I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways," he said. "So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways."
- 5timuli0
Just hold on for tomorrow.
- 5timuli0
Then you can take a drive to Primrose Hill.
- 5timuli0
It's windy there but the view's so nice.
- kezza_20
I suppose what I'm thinking is; is the cult of everyone who has an opinion being listened to doing us any favours, or should be hark back to the experts know best
- cannonball0
my point being that i check the internet every once in a while with the hopes of seeing something interesting or compelling, or even learning something if value to me, and only get it maybe 5% of the time.
- TheBlueOne0
With all this talk of an information age I have to ask, if we are indeed in an age where information is valuable, wouldn't then the most valuable information be kept secret?
In the gold age wasn't gold hoarded, and people used silver or lesser metals as daily exchange? Wuoldn't it be the same with information - put all the useless news, pundit speculation, spam and gossip out there, but the real valuable information is kept tightly controlled and privatized where it can be leveraged to the maximum effect?
Thus us rubes have no clue about what the real story...
- Valuable information being trade secrets, scientific information, etc...TheBlueOne
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- cannonball0
lesson learned. Everyone out there is a babbling douchebag moron. time to go build a stone house in the woods and get off the grid.
- Greedo0
But the internet is really just like an old extended family, except it's a much larger family with way more aunts and uncles with extreme views, and being exposed to all of them, you should get a sense of the middle ground and be able to form your own opinions.
- ukit0
What about globalization of the markets? I think you are right that we are living in a different world today, but it has less to do with just the pace of news and more to do with the interconnectivity of actual markets.
There, interconnectivity, I used a big word today.
- How interconnected are we really? How many of you know the reasons why Thailiand is imploding for example...TheBlueOne
- beasue people believe that the current president is a puppet of the former one. so they are trying to push him outKiko
- jamble0
The interweb spawns "experts" on every subject known to man and with the proliferation of social news sites like Digg, everyone has an opinion and it's so easy to broadcast it whether it's accurate or not.
The current state of the economy is no doubt bad but I'd be inclined to agree that now we live in an age where news is on 24/7 it's made much much worse because news channels have to fill the airtime with something no matter how relevant or helpful it actually is.
- 65Neue0
But it has also brought it to everyone attention so we can all aim to do something about it. Is the internet fanning the flames or feeding us the solution also.
Discuss/
- SuperSport0
I thought Parklife was a superior record.....
- kezza_20
I'm fasinated by peoples responses....
I remember the last downturn in the 90's and no one discussed it in the way we do now. I guess I wonder whether the democratization of information has done us any good what so ever.
Whilst I understand the internet has lots of very practical GOOD uses, surely the furor we've whipped ourselves into has been a result of this very said access?