"Annihilating less-than-useful contributors" (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

Forwarded message:

> From: Information Security <guy at panix.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:38:51 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: "Annihilating less-than-useful contributors"

> #   their interest in "freakish, left-handed mollusks," he said
> #   collaborative software is needed that liberates the creative
> #   power of the best people and "annihilates the counterproductive."
> #   According to Sterling, the latter includes idiots, spammers,
> #   and less-than-useful contributors.
> #   ...
> #   Sterling envisions an "online utopia" that would occur if
> #   Web- and email-leveraging software were automatically
> #   moderated. 
> #   ...
> #   "If you could do this, you could advance knowledge," he said.
> #   The Net and the collaboration it enables would be able to add
> #   to the sum of human knowledge. 

Assuming, without statement of course, that we know what information is
important *before* we know it exists and we need it...the same old failure
of all utopianist...they assume one size fits all.


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