2005

Carr Nicholas

The amorality of Web 2.0

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php

From the start, the World Wide Web has been a vessel of quasi-religious longing. And why not? For those seeking to transcend the physical world, the Web presents a readymade Promised Land. On the Internet, we're all bodiless, symbols speaking to symbols in symbols.