This guy apparently believes the internet is ruining out culture (via Wired.com). The site is for a new book, The Cult of the Amateur, by Andrew Keen.
That’s the big debate: is the Internet improving our cultural output, or is it ruining it? By cultural output, I mean journalism, films, books, politics, music, etc. The internet has empowered millions of people to create and diseminate cultural products. There’s no filter, no editorial process, just a tidal surge of ‘creativity.’
Is this a good or a bad thing? I’m inclined to reserve judgment. I suspect that those who think the internet has had a negative effect on our culture are simply afraid of what the future may bring in the same way I’m sure the aristocracy feared the invention of the printing press. Those who try to fight it will be swept along anyway.
Hey, things change. Adapt or die.
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