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<p> : : : : : : : :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. : : Rite, side by side with wholesale love of TELEMATIQUE : : INFOMATIQUE and PRODUCTIQUE, we are deluged by the : : possibility of 200 million subscribers recreating : : and accepting current physical-world : : social structures as net worthy.