Friday, May 05, 2006
Radical Egalitarianism – Is this a good thing???
I am user of Wikipedia and the internet. But, I am beginning to wonder if all this access to data is a good thing or not…
I am currently listening (again, kudos to http://www.audible.com, the greatest thing since the wheel) to the book, The World is Flat. It’s a fascinating thesis, but his flatteners make me wonder. Specifically, Friedman’s writing on Google and Wikipedia. Now, let me put my biases up front – I am a near PhD in the theology and have become used to the idea of using experts instead of any Jane, Dick, or Hamid. Friedman quotes the founders of both companies, and how excited they are about going direct to users for information, and how now information has been leveled so everyone has access to the same information and can make their own decisions.
In general this is a good thing. More information allows for people to make good decisions. But, having read Wikipedia, at times I have been a bit concerned about the statements found there. Further, should one Google say, Jesus, and the first link that came up (after the adds) was, http://www.jesusdressup.com/ Yep, you read that right. Number six was http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
