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Comments on: shaking off the doldrums? https://hughmcguire.net/2007/05/18/shaking-off-the-doldrums/ aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing. Fri, 18 May 2007 15:30:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Chris Hughes https://hughmcguire.net/2007/05/18/shaking-off-the-doldrums/comment-page-1/#comment-557 Fri, 18 May 2007 15:30:54 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2007/05/18/shaking-off-the-doldrums/#comment-557 One thought – I think the effects of technology on society in the next few years will be much greater than has been predicted. I helps to imagine the internet ten years ago. It might help to read this interview with one Steve Jobs, back when he was running next, from Wired in 1996.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs.html

Love the bit where the interviewer thinks he’s going to say ‘people will have something to share’, and instead he says ‘people will have something TO SELL!’

This was when the web was more idealistic than commercial. Hard to imagine now.

But include commerce in the democratisation, as well as knowledge. The internet makes it easier to share, and potentially easier to earn a living. Look at the Indian economy, skipping the industrial revolution.

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