Friday, 6 April 2007

'The age of permanant net revoloution' article notes

*Writer- John Naughton (tv reviewer turned internet guru).

*The world wide web took off 1993.

*Today nobody knows how big the web is.

*Web is growing by approx 25,000 pages an hour.

*John Seely Brown- 'ENDISM', new technologies replacing old ones. E.g the arrival of cd-rom sees the demise of books.

*Not all of these preditions are correct.

*Interactions between old and new media are complex.

*Cultural critic, Neil Postman proposed notion of media ecology.

*The organisms in our media ecosystem include broadcast and narrowcast.

*For most of our lives the dominant organism was TV.

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