The eerily foreboding Xanadu-(EVEN IF HUMANITY SURVIVES- SRSLY?) casting my mind back to before I was born, when learning and sharing information had fewer choices than are now offered by globalized, Xanadu-esque platforms. I think of RMIT’s Blackboard, for example; information, links and content for brainstorming, theorizing and expanding complex concepts at the ground level, icloud (that’s a whole other story), Dropbox, Googledrive… our education and daily lives are driven by media-sharing, we are the ‘prosumers’.
Which poses the question, ‘How network literate do we need to be?’ these developments allow the coexistence and resolution of many viewpoints, we have access to social networks and online education, and we can produce our own content online to a point where producing and consuming lines are blurred. Hypertext, infographics, remixability, Facebook status updates…
It’s all relative in that these systems allow choice to the audience as to how information is read and shared, links to further information (because we are the more, more MORE generation) all these ideas, apsirations, greatest fears; ‘From the information lords to the information peons’ and beyond.
Nelson, Theodor Holm.
