Saturday, December 4, 2010

Experimental Blog #49

Comments on "Wild West 2.0" - How to Protect and Restore Your Online Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier" by Michael Fertik and David Thompson

Here are some disorganized thoughts provoked by reading this book.
It almost seems that the entire, at least 10,000 year, social history of human beings that happened before about the year 2000 might be thought of as something like "prehistoric," in comparison with the "Internet New Digital Frontier."
The technology described so well in this book applies mostly to the activated, up to date, and, mostly, younger population. However, this portion is truly global, very large, and is continuously and rapidly increasing.
The "Internet New Digital Frontier" society is described as "amoral," and has little or no government, and mostly limited "vigilante justice," at best.
Will this new society ever have more effective government or any religion? And where would these temporizing and self-controlling factors come from? How would they develope?

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