Great article Jeffery, throughout history every attempt to 'manage' or 'contain' culture have failed whether it be technology or language. Another thing history proves is that technologies are almost never used in the way the inventors expected, eg radio was designed for one-way transmissions exclusively for the military, not for entertainment etc and SMS messaging was originally designed to allow workers atop telecom towers to communicate with each other. When as shortwave radio enthusiast pointed his small dish into the skies and picked up a fuzzy 1 volt video signal it was the dawn of the millions of small dish television receivers around the world.
Great article Jeffery, throughout history every attempt to 'manage' or 'contain' culture have failed whether it be technology or language. Another thing history proves is that technologies are almost never used in the way the inventors expected, eg radio was designed for one-way transmissions exclusively for the military, not for entertainment etc and SMS messaging was originally designed to allow workers atop telecom towers to communicate with each other. When as shortwave radio enthusiast pointed his small dish into the skies and picked up a fuzzy 1 volt video signal it was the dawn of the millions of small dish television receivers around the world.