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Web 2.0 is Sharecropping
Topic: High Tech Developments 7:37 am EDT, Jun  6, 2011

Jesse Vincent:

Social computing is a good thing.

What's worrying is how the current generation of Internet technology has increasingly centralized control of just about everything into very few hands. What we've seen is essentially a return to a sharecropping model where users neither own their tools nor the computers those tools run on.

Decius:

Unless there is some detail that I'm missing, this sounds positively Orwellian.

An exchange:

Moe: Think hard, and come up with a slogan that appeals to all the lazy slobs out there.
Homer: [moans] Can't someone else do it?
Moe: "Can't someone else do it?", that's perfect!
Homer: It is?
Moe: Yeah! Now get out there and spread that message to the people!

Straw Man:

Money for me, databases for you.

Libby Purves:

There is a thrill in switching off the mobile, taking the bus to somewhere without CCTV and paying cash for your tea. You and your innocence can spend an afternoon alone together, unseen by officialdom.

Samantha Power:

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

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