Being Stupid Makes Us Stupid
The current outage just caused a moment of reflection on how we increasingly use new forms of technology in very post-postmodern ways that intertwine the subjective and the objective in interesting ways. Truth becomes a collective excavation of infinitely networked negotiations towards a reconciliation of acceptable perspectives that cohere to a felt experience.
I tried to break down at what I was driving in the comments and, all-in-all, I remain committed to that conclusion. But one can’t deny or ignore the counter examples that fly in the face of seeing emergent technologies as wholly a good thing. To wit, I stumbled across a story about the rise and fall of rumours surrounding Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley’s death intentionally started by booking agent and blogger Andrew Bucket (pseudonym) on Twitter just to see how far one tweet could go.
The result? Further than you might think. [Read more →]
October 19, 2009 7 Comments
