“Searls and Weinberger are hippies, and they see a Free and Open Internet as a key building block of a free and open world, in much the way that Timothy Leary saw LSD in a previous generation. They’re concerned that commercial interests will spoil their metaphor through misunderstanding, and somehow pervert it into a tool of control, oppression, and Big Brother. But they fall into the trap that they warn about, by romanticizing the ‘Net and making it more metaphor than reality.” Richard Bennett
—What we wish the Internet were Ophalos)
One of several “get real” responses to Doc Searls and David Weinberger’s “World of Ends” manifesto.
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This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?