The last frontier

Once it was outer space, now the last frontier seems to be the Internet. We have gone from the substantial, things of this universe, to the conceptual (things of so-called) communication. This Web is composed of those who prostitutionalize the soul, battle each other with advertisement, and thieves using the pistol of hacking.
Yesterday I received a message on my Facebook telling me to beware of some guy that's using Facebook to hack into our computer. In the beginning of the semester my wall mate had an episode where she was being stalked by a friend. If this stuff happens to people like us who don't use the Internet much, imagine what happens to the computer addicts! AND TRUST this thing!
At the end of 2006 Time was forced to name us as the person of the year, because we spent some much time prostitutionalizing ourselves on this intangible thing called the Internet, that we forgot to pay attention to the industries and companies around us. So instead of them growing, the Internet grew.
What makes it worse is that nobody cares!
In a related article, Walking the Online Edge, a stubborn teacher trying to seek the future by forcing his school to become more dependant on Web 2.0. is worshipped! It talks about the unreliable wiki as though it were a good, productive tool. Anybody can see, it's just a brainstorm of ideas, something you can do in the comfort of a conference group where you can see every bodies faces. Most of our social communication is done through body language anyway. So focus on the extremely small portion of our words. You don't even get the benefit of the voice!
For the same reasons the blog is just a complete waist of time. The teachers felt this way, and the article just shoved their complaints aside, saying that the principal is right to continue to convert the poor school. " I will not relinquish the steering of the wheel of this bus." he says " I might back off the pedal just a smudge, but I refuse to hit the brakes."
There should be an outrage because of behavior like this, but instead it is worshipped! If they put valuable information on the web then there should be an downright mob. Oh wait we already do have all of our valuable information on the web, awaiting the claws of the hacker.

Paul J. Hoeg