People Are Not a Tool for the Web

The Web is a tool for people. A tool for people to use to research, learn, build, create...connect.

During the dot.bomb, I heard sighs of relief as dot.companies folded. "Now we can start using the web as a tool rather than a destination."

I find some are trying to recreate the dot.boom. Their theme song may be "Let's Hang On to What We've Got." Old-style thinking. Time to rethink a few things.

Caught this via Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant. A video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Antrhopolgy at Kansas State:

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