I’m a history geek. I read stuff like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and The Civil War Trilogy. Right now I’m working through a nifty little treatise on the history of the Heart Sutra.
Obscure yes, but I like it that way.
Consequently, I find any attempt to define the changes we are going through as an exercise in silliness. It’s as if 10 years after the introduction of the printing press in Europe, they held a Gutenberg 2.0 conference to talk about what already happened – before the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the Enlightenment, the American and French Revolutions, etc. etc.
You get my point.
So now we have Web 2.0 when I’m not even sure we’ve finished with Web 1.0, or whatever it was we called it. Can we really quantify a trend when we’re right in the middle of it? Or as Tara Hunt quoted Chris Pirillo, “I’ll bet they didn’t run around during the Renaissance, saying, ‘Wow, look at this Renaissance!’”
Speaking of Ms. Hunt, I’m going to wrap this up with a bit of wisdom to which I can only add… yep.
Web 2.0 is the desire to name a movement that hasn’t quite matured yet. What washes out in the end may or may not resemble O’Reilly’s clever conference title.
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