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by kaycebasques
628 days ago
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> filled our heads with candied dreams of endlessly-spanning information super-highways * https://www.wikipedia.org * https://www.openstreetmap.org * https://github.com * https://data.gov * https://fred.stlouisfed.org * https://ourworldindata.org * ... Plus the countless documentation websites that we technical writers lovingly toil away at day-in and day-out. If you implicitly focus on consumer websites, then sure, there is a lot to be pessimistic about. But what professional in any field would say that they had easier access to information 34 years ago than today? How can we say that the information superhighway is not "mission accomplished" in that case? Or maybe the claim is that the information superhighway was most efficient in 2005 and we have regressed since that peak? Are we just upset because some people in the 90s set the unrealistic expectation that the internet would fix literally every bad thing about society and we bought into that silly claim? |
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