Continental Drift and The Internet
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It was only a matter of time before someone produced something new on the Web as simple and obvious as say roller blades and mountain bikes.
In this case a free, fully hosted professional standard publishing and content management system that average chronic technophobes can build...together. The ManyOne Universal Portal Platform (www.Trunity.net) is taking the Luddite community by storm.
You can go there now and create your first website/portal. Its too easy.
Among the many problems this platform solves is one of particular importance in all cases; it takes out the middleman. No more having to call ‘the Web guy’ to fix a misspelling.
Perfectly intelligent, educated professionals can finally stop declaring themselves chronically disabled when faced with the idea of venturing beyond the frontiers of e-mail into the dark and mysterious world of posting content on the Internet.
Such whimperings of helplessness bring pure joy to the hearts of techies -- the loyal keepers of this 'secret’. But I think the time has come to expose it. I herein betray my fellowship. The ‘big secret’ is...Drum roll please….?
Using a computer is really quite easy and you are not going to die before learn how. So you can either whine for another year or...
Here's another secret. Your 11-year-old is not really a computer genius. If you spent one tenth of the time on one as he does, you would be running circles around him (or her) in no time.
I use the word ‘computer’ here in the vernacular because to the Luddites, "computer" and "I don't do" strung together in a sentence, still buys time.
Calling everything that happens through the box a "computer" is like calling everything that moves in the water a fish. The truth is, a continental plate is not a fish and the Internet is not a computer.
The Internet is a continental plate that is drifting imperceptibly to those in denial.
One day they will wake up and discover an African Prince is President of The United States and wonder how we drifted so far without feeling a thing.
By Cliff Lyon
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Posted by Cliff Lyon on January 23, 2009 3:01 pm
The saddest part about this 'Luddite' problem is that it represents a divide between those with and those without a relationship with the Internet that reflects the value of their potential contribution to the big conversation.
When really smart people aren't part of the revolution, it hurts.
Having done 'computers' all my life, I've decided, some people just decided somewhere along the way, that they couldn't or wouldn't learn new things.
That's OK if you are talking about programming a VCR, but this is the Internet.