QUOTE(Rhindle @ Mon 16th March 2009, 10:07am)
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I wonder what Neil Postman would say about wikipedia and web 2.0 in general.
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Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems
I believe he is talking about unprocessed, semi-processed, or mal-processed information. And of course it's something like semi-processed garbage. Doing anything really right takes work, and not all information-processing work can be chopped, diced, packetted, and parcelled out for people to do it for free in their spare time. Yet.
So what you get is sort of like turning sewage into graywater. It's amazing that it works at all! You can put it on your lawn! Just don't drink.