I have a few thoughts on email lists, and email, and information, and too
much of all the above. I wonder just how ‘democratic’ the world will become
when everyone has email and everyone can publish? If everyone talks at
once, then no one can hear. There are already too many books, too many web
sites, and too many lists. Too much information means no time to think and
no time to think means no knowledge. Just cause someone publishes, does it
means that we all have too? This is the American individual view of
democracy. There are just so many assumptions being made about the Internet
and democracy that we need to sit down and have a glass of whiskey and
think about it. Sure, it doesn’t take a genius to ask who decides who
publishes, but it is also equally naive to assume that the free flow of
information is leading towards a more equitable existence. The opposite
true. The world is more unequal now than it has ever been in history,
perhaps 200: 1 from richest country to poorest country (say Switzerland and
Mozambique).
Now that I told you this (I am not a theorist so it is true, I have
evidence 
What are you going to do about it?
Information obesity is like hamburger obesity. It is American.
the death of email
...at first it was sexy, then it became banal. At first it promised that you would be noticed, then it promised that you would be ignored. At first email gave you access to exotic places and important people, then it became the least effective way to communicate.
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