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December 02, 2003
On the web,
Esther Dyson
worries about social networking, wondering whether services like
Plaxo,
Friendster,
Spoke and
LinkedIn are taking us towards "a world of surveillance, not just on the part of governments or even corporations, but widespread peer-to-peer surveillance." Via Many to Many, where David Weinberger
argues that "these social networks are debasing the words 'friend' and 'social'."
Jim Moore, meanwhile,
believes that technology is giving birth to a "second superpower" dedicated to opposing the United States (see also
Eric,
Taran and the
Register), while First Monday compares how two very different social movements (
Stormfront and
MoveOn use the net.
