{"id":20,"date":"2005-05-24T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/driscolldev\/2005\/05\/24\/what-will-2014-read-like\/"},"modified":"2005-05-24T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T15:35:26","slug":"what-will-2014-read-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/2005\/05\/24\/what-will-2014-read-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What will 2014 read like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a24'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breaking my blog-fast for a moment to point you to <a href=\"halorising.com\/epic\">a flash video from the future<\/a> describing the media landscape of 2014.  As the New York Times is reduced to a pamphlet for the &#8220;elite and elderly&#8221;, a Google\/Blogger\/Amazon\/TiVo collaborative app called <i>EPIC<\/i> serves customized content to each user based on a complex blend of personal information.  Special algorithms scrape single sentences from blog and news articles to create a limitless torrent described as &#8220;narrow&#8221;, &#8220;shallow&#8221;, and &#8220;trivial.&#8221; In other words, asserts the narrator, &#8220;it&#8217;s what we wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A colleague of mine recently described the Internet, and the knowledge of its attendant young generation, as a ocean two inches deep.  Does the pursuit of semiotic democracy and participatory culture require deeper scrutiny?  Does a diversity of voices lead to a lack of expertise and the devaluation of all information?<\/p>\n<p>I maintain that as access barriers weaken, public education must strengthen in proportion.  To responsibly wield the democratizing software tools being created, a population must have the intangible tools of critical thinking and media literacy firmly in place.  Do our cultural values presently reflect this need?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking my blog-fast for a moment to point you to a flash video from the future describing the media landscape of 2014. As the New York Times is reduced to a pamphlet for the &#8220;elite and elderly&#8221;, a Google\/Blogger\/Amazon\/TiVo collaborative app called EPIC serves customized content to each user based on a complex blend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}