Amazing how Bowie nails the revolutionary nature of the medium-message interplay of the internet.
An open-ended, emergent, ‘alien life-form’.Juxtapose with Paul Krugman’s “the internet will be no more impactful than the fax machine”.@EconTalker 😉@mgurri@EPoe187 https://t.co/vJnuSg73Tw
— Joe Rini (@JoeRini6) November 11, 2020
Bowie was right. I was right. Ian Welsh and many, many others were and are wrong about this.
The internet is Gutenbergian in its effects and consequences, and the first truly significant change in human communication in 500 years. No, I don’t think radio and TV were even close, though they certainly are not nothing.
The reason I think the above about radio and TV is the just one website — Facebook — has had more impact on the world in a decade than radio or TV has had in toto since their advent.