zondag 17 december 2006

Jij

Het artikel waarin TIME jou uitroept tot persoon van het jaar bevat niets nieuws. Maar toch blijft het fascinerend om af en toe stil te staan bij de enorme impact die het internet heeft op de samenleving.

"But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious."

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