In reply to: Re: the web is always there posted by benjamin weil on April 18, 1996 at 12:29:38:
:Doncha just get tired of the "global village" hype that pretends that everyone will be part of the big, wonderful world wide web? Ever think about the web as a giant fishing net that catches all the shards of diversity out in the world, reels em in and eats em for dinner in a corporate-sponsored annual stockholders gala? I'm skeptical about all this one world stuff, and even though the Web is decentralized in some ways and would be better if more kinds of people were on it, it has homogenizing effects that are perhaps more noticeable now than they will be once the Web becomes naturalized, or a totally taken-for-granted part of our lives.