From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 13:15:42 MDT
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Ten years ago, the culture in our country really felt
very uniform. When the Internet began, I remember being struck by how much the
world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in
how people viewed the world. There will be a million weblogs of communities that
are very distinct and don't favor one political party or one particular view of
life. The creationists will have theirs and the people who are non-creationists
will have theirs. My argument ten years ago was that the Internet was created to
provide enough fodder for people to get PhDs in anthropology again. Previous
PhDs have studied every known society. So we just invented a thousand more. Now
people are surprised to find out that there's evil in the world. In fact there's
plenty of evil in the world. In many ways, the Internet allows you to target bad
things and decide what you want to do with them. I believe that these issues
around 'good' and 'bad' will become the defining issues of how information is
accessed.
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