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Editor Natasha Gunn went to the annual PICNIC conference for the creative industry held in Amsterdam in September. Here are some snippets from a debate on the influence of the digital revolution on our society and feedback from the European Bloggers Unconference.A. Keen: the internet is a mirror.
Simplifying the world
During a session in which Author of 'Everything is miscellaneous' David Weinberger debates with Andrew Keen, author of 'The cult of the amateur' on the influence of digital revolution on our society, Keen says the media needs to educate, inform and entertain rather than reflect the world; to simplify things rather than make them complex.
In this vein I'm going to attempt to give you, hopefully, clear fragments of what I took home from the event and plenty of links to lead you further.
Described as a professional provocateur, Keen argues that today’s internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy and not "leading us to a democratised paradise" as assumed by some. Of course, "we want people to understand the world politically, culturally, economically, [but] is the chaos of the internet educational? Is it not "undermining credible media?" says Keen who aggressively defends the authority of professionals and experts.
"It doesn't mean that amateurs are worthless, but it means that these [experts] are the people who can really use this technology for everyone's benefit," he says. "We need to manage technology to our benefit." David Weinberger
Solving the problem of messiness
Disagreeing with Keen, David Weinberger, described by Keen as "professor of philosophy selling the web to you", believes that the web was built to solve the problem of 'messiness'. Human nature drives us to organise the stuff around us, but we will always find one 'miscellaneous' box to fill with things which don't fit.
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