Re: is the main stream internet making people dumb   
     By: Bbsing Bbs to All on Wed Aug 09 2017 02:49 am   
      
   I agree with those who have responded. I find it odd coming from computing in   
   the days where the internet wasn't much compared to today. I remember the cusp   
   of what appeared to be the start of the information age. Then seeing the change   
   slowing into comerce more and more and the web primary development for comerce.   
   Information gathering and infomration and computer usage in most of the public   
   space just became about comerce.    
      
   Now how does this dumb down the public. I suppose comerce is helping that for   
   sure when I see the use of the internet for comcerce not providing a primary   
   purpose for information sharing. yes there is informationsharing but where is   
   it all. Look at the migration ofr publishing from a cost perspective. You would   
   think the cost for publsihing dropping considerably but the price for   
   information is still relativily high.    
      
   The very place this message is being read is free for us all. The information   
   whtin isn't worht much outside our opinions being valued highly, or not.   
   Always interesting seeing responses and flames, most messages, forums, blogs,   
   twits, ...etc flames flames flames and usually sping out of control into   
   political correctness, or some perversion to denegrade and remove intellegent   
   conversavtion and constructive cooperation. Its nuts.    
      
   So I look to examples of the Kardashian's youtube cookie organization videos,   
   to countless other moderate entertainment cinnamon challenges  (can't spell its   
   getting worse for a computer guy), its just mind blowing to me the best of us   
   can't be found and is hardly promotted on the internet but the worste and   
   mediority is widely pervasive.    
      
   Information gathering and agregation for data analytics is the primary buzz,   
   under data science. These things categorize negativily under privacy assaults   
   and right to inforation death/deletion. Its impossibly for americans right now   
   and also verification, but as noted google search often produces adds personal   
   to the user searching. The results leads to distraction and poor habits towards   
   shopping instead of contibuting content with meaning.    
      
   I and others can go on and on about this, but the other question is how to   
   apply any force to steer the current momentum of the mega corps and primary   
   surface web to something of eglaterian value for us all to move into a true   
   information age.    
      
   As always more thoughts are welcome, all thoughts and perspectives.    
      
   I applogize for the grammer, and the spelling. I'm a compture guy not an   
   english guy. I also am working this via live without spellcheck or stuff like   
   that.   
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