Television may be the gin of the information age, but that doesn’t mean the web is pure water

The new media revolutionary in me so much wants to believe Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" hypothesis, that the web heralds a new era of mass participation, collaboration and creativity. With our mobile phones and broadband connections we remade society, so that my five-year-old son cannot conceive of a world without the web ("Daddy, if … Continue reading Television may be the gin of the information age, but that doesn’t mean the web is pure water