March 01, 2003
Davos Reactions
damon wright | administrivia: Davos: WEF This is a fascinating email that Damon links to (three links downstream).Then I saw an even more fascinating discussion here.
In summary, Laurie Garrett attended the WEF, wrote a flippant email to her friends with fascinating and disturbing content about the world stage of political leaders and what they really think and say, and it got forwarded everywhere. The lawmeme article bemoans the fact that someone wrote something perfectly suited for what email is all about, and then because of other qualities of email (like how easy it is to forward), got burned, and will now no longer be using email for a task for which email is perfectly suited.
Here's what I think about that: Big Deal. Maybe Laurie Garrett will stop sending these emails to friends. Big Deal. She falls away from the new reality because she can't hack it. Someone else replaces her. The information flow will still happen, the information will still get out, the boundaries between the general population and the conspiratorial truths will continue to break down, information will continue to be shared to anyone regardless of their class or political beliefs. That's just the way it is. The people who can't hack that are just making themselves irrelevant.
Posted by Curt at March 1, 2003 12:59 AM