Web 2.0, the post modern internet?
hunter // October 21st, 2006
Some interesting thinking on web2.0. Are we moving on from the age of Web enlightenment into the post modern web? Are the clichéd terms like Web 2.0 just the start of the transition?
Enlightenment thinking was clear and organized. There were disagreements amongst the thinkers of the Era, but the Era itself was definable. Post-modernism cannot be defined except by saying what it is not. It is not modern; it is what came after the Enlightenment. “Web 2.0” suffers from the same malaise. People across the globe are publishing countless articles and books to try to define Web 2.0, but like its underpinning philosophy, it is not easily defined. In fact, to put it into a box would be to contradict its very nature.
Nice to see a some different thought on the present and future of this medium.
enlightenment, internet, new media, philosophy, post modernism web2.0