Can We Save the Internet?

An oldie but a goodie (2007 being old in this post).

http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/2007-05-29/can_the_internet_be_saved

“Andrew Keen is the author of Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine. In this week’s Big Question, they debate “Can we save the internet?”"
The discussion is a series of email exchanges between both authors, with links to each one below (Keen kicks it off with Can We Save the Internet?)

From this Dialogue

1. Can We Save the Internet?
2. The Cult of Anonymity
3. Don’t Scan My Book
4. Analog Fundamentalism, Digital Ambiguity
5. The Cult of the Audience
6. The Internet is 90% Amateur Crap
7. Not Everyone Can Be Kevin Kelly
8. The Mega-Question of the Coming Centuries

A few links before tomorrow’s discussion

Here is a list of a few articles and presentations that I will release in posts throughout the next day week that I have found really important in considering some of the promises and perils related to technology and new media. Will skew more towards the positive, considering what I do and what I will present.

An essay by longnow.org board member Brian Eno on thinking long-term, and a video of their executive director Alexander Rose

Author, entrepreneur and my favorite bomb-thrower Andrew Keen debates Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on Web 2.0.

Esther Dyson talks about managing your presence online, and about how the internet has changed life for her.

Julian Dibbell travels to China for The New York Times and reports on gold famers (people playing World of Warcraft and selling their work to Westerners)

Philip Rizk (philiprizk.org), Wheaton graduate kidnapped by Secret Police, in an interview with the NY Times after his release.

Jay Martin of martinbionics.com discusses the future of prosthetic limbs.

World Builder, a video on a speculative future use of virtual worlds.

Mark Slouka laments the scientism of the new Hadron Supercollider.

Kevin Kelly

• The Next 1,000 Years of Christianity (Q Conference)
• What Does Technology Want? (TED Conference)

Welcome

If you are here, you are looking for a discussion on the future of technology and faith. Tomorrow I will start my machine to make a post, so please check back then.

–Bryan Campen