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It IS dead, in a way
By aos007 on 3/28/2008 5:13:46 PM , Rating: 0
From an open place where everything was possible and that looked like it might change the world, all we have now is increasingly censored, heavily monitored and regionalized network. 10 years ago you could shop online from anywhere and get things delivered anywhere. Today you can't even shop from Canada in USA for most things. And years ago there were many online websites unrelated to each other, offering wealth of information about games, for example. But the situation today is such that I'd prefer a good old fashioned **respectable** magazine (like PC gamer, or what it used to be) to deliver my game reviews and news instead of having to comb the web for tidbits of typically biased information from websites that are actually mostly owned by the same people to try to figure out what is the truth. And let's not even talk about the politics (dissidents, rights violations etc.), censorship and other stuff. The internet IS dead, for what it was supposed to be. It's just an effective communications tool and a really great encyclopedia that can boost productivity enormously (e.g. for a software developer) but other than that, its impact is turning out to be far less than was expected - more evolutionary then revolutionary. The internet didn't force a change in the world - the world forced the internet to change (and abide to the old ways).

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