Web 2.0 Puts Reason To Sleep

June 19, 2007

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Several noteworthy thinkers consider the whole Web 2.0 meme as part of their series of discussions appearing on the Britannica Blog. We're still waiting for them to talk about Web 2.0. It's been suggested in places that defining Web 2.0 is akin to Morpheus' description of the Matrix in the movie. "No one can be told what the Matrix is," Laurence Fishburne intoned. "You have to see it for yourself."

I'm looking today, my first day back from vacation, at the Wisdom of the crowds is an oxymoron, to be invested with little trust. People should learn to think more critically. Reasonable statements, but I'm no closer to understanding why this is a Web 2.0 discussion than when I started.

As the series of discussions continue on the Britannica Blog, I'm going to request that the highly educated minds participating on it do something they haven't accomplished yet. Build a foundation for Web 2.0, for discussing it, and create on top of that.

"We get the God we deserve," Carr said of the spread of computer technology as a harbinger of change. I'd like to understand what Web 2.0 is first before getting anything I might deserve.