Internet Evolution: What’s the Web Worth?

My first real post at Internet Evolution is up:

[from What’s the Web Worth? by Stowe Boyd]

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This is a world beset by disease, riven by war, melting under the sun, poisoned by hate and fear, pinioned by the tug-of-war between contending ideologies, tribes, nations, and religions. Maybe we should exchange the tiny and swindling sliver of what is good and bright in the world for the Web. There is so little of that, and so much that is dark. Maybe our only hope is to rework our notions of happiness, rethink our connections to each other in light of the Web, and put aside even the apparent good that comes from a world divided and turned against itself.

Let’s give the Web to ourselves, in exchange for what we held dear before.

The Web is uncountable, not infinite, but for all intents and purposes, its size and costs are unknowable. It’s changing things like never before, just as if we were rewriting our DNA. We can look back, and try to measure how far we’ve come, or look ahead, to how far we have to go, but ultimately, the value of the thing called the Web will be measured by the changes in ourselves, and what we make of ourselves through it.

I am hoping that the result of my thoughts at Internet Evolution will start to feel like at least the echo or shadow of a book, so I am eager for feedback. The working title is The Social Revolution.