Misinformation age
The Weekly Standard
by David Gelernter
Returning to young people (the cultural climate affects young people most) -- either the Information Age is real, and they would be even less well-informed without it (which is hard to picture); or it's a fraud and has failed to help or actually made things worse. The more carefully we ponder the facts, the more unsettling they become. And this issue is important. We can't abolish the Cybersphere, and few people would choose to. But that doesn't mean we have to take it as it is and like it and keep quiet. There is remarkably little commentary on the Cybersphere beyond consumer-level recommendations. You'd have thought Cybersphere criticism would be nearly as well developed as literary criticism by now. It isn't. So what's the truth about the Information Age?" (for publication 01/02/05)
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by David Gelernter
Returning to young people (the cultural climate affects young people most) -- either the Information Age is real, and they would be even less well-informed without it (which is hard to picture); or it's a fraud and has failed to help or actually made things worse. The more carefully we ponder the facts, the more unsettling they become. And this issue is important. We can't abolish the Cybersphere, and few people would choose to. But that doesn't mean we have to take it as it is and like it and keep quiet. There is remarkably little commentary on the Cybersphere beyond consumer-level recommendations. You'd have thought Cybersphere criticism would be nearly as well developed as literary criticism by now. It isn't. So what's the truth about the Information Age?" (for publication 01/02/05)
http://tinyurl.com/av6um
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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