Friday, November 10, 2006

I'm starting to wonder just how relevant this whole 'internet' thing is to the world in general. I mean the problem is that the demographic make up of the majority of net users, and in particular prolific users and early adopters (who for want of a better word I'll call the 2.kids) is so off whack as to be virtually meaningless. Surely a case can be made that the internet is massively amplifying the voices and opinions of a bunch of politically and socially infantile geeks.

Of course I could count myself amongst their number, but chew on this for a moment :

Number of videos on youtube matching "Nelson Mandela" : 115

Number of videos on youtube matching "Ann Coulter" : 375

But let's keep this in perspective. How many for Madonna? 13,491.

1 comment:

The London Lifer said...

All good points - but today's 2.kids application is tomorrows 'tootling about'. Think of eBay - your 70 year old uncle loves is but a few years ago eBay was the hot-shit interactive commercial white hot heat of industry of the internet - it was *the* killer app! And I belive you have a blog do you not? 5 years ago: the equivalent of walking around wearing a silicon chip as a brooch. Today: normal.

In 5 years time we'll all be downloading videos straight into our cortical nodes and not thinking anything of it ;-)

Well, maybe not sure about that last one, but one thing I do know is that in 5 years time those people who largely use the web for shopping will find their needs still more than adequately met.

On the other hand all those people cluttering up the web with recipes for motha fucking pineapple upside down cakes and 'where is the nearest chemist to Croyden tram stop' 'n' shit will have been ruthlessly hunted down and terminated.

As for bloggers? Heh!