Posted By
Eric Anderson on 03/15/2010
I think the SXSW sessions are all, in one way or another, talking about the Big Question
that hyperconnectivity raises: Are we better or worse off for being so
connected? Obviously, the balance of opinion tends toward the positive; this is
after all a conference of tech optimists, sponsored by many large technology companies.
But there are plenty of warnings mixed in with all the tech optimism—warnings
regarding privacy, identity, anonymity, and authority. These questions are
endlessly debatable. The constant reconstituting of the same information over
and over in the Twittersphere can be oppressive, but isn’t that mainly a matter
of learning how to manage and filter that content so it doesn’t become
crippling? Technology has become so accessible that we learn to use it quickly
without learning to use it well.
Tags: social networks
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