Aaaaaargh! I hate reading old web sites. I've been looking at some sites from 1996 - 2001 and they are dreadful to read. For example, Shaping and Being Shaped is an interesting article on attitudes towards technology... but blimey it's hard work to navigate. You have no idea where you are, no idea how much there is still to read, no easy way of taking notes on it online as it's not a single document. It does raise an interesting question about technology and the way in which it's used though. If I experienced those sites as being typical of documents on the web I'd question whether or not the web itself would be suitable for use as a learning medium. But... if I experience content delivered well via the net then the question doesn't even enter my head. I don't actually even notice the medium, it just 'is'. I wonder if the position of utopia or dystopia when it comes to technology isn't really about the technology but about the way the implementation of a technology has coloured a person's viewpoint? Context is king? Don't know, but the love or hate of technology is a blurry concept at best.
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