Literanista
October 6, 2010
Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the dumbing down of America while at the same time there seems to be a lot of hysteria about books/print, who’s reading them, and what the web is or isn’t doing to us. In this same vein, I wanted to share three articles that I found really speak to what is going on – things are changing dramatically – what we are looking at are major cultural shifts happening in our lifetime.
From a tech perspective, we see two differing takes on shift here with Malcolm Gladwell’s Small Change: The Revolution Will Not be Tweeted and Anil Dash’s response Making the Revolution
Once upon a time, things were simpler. Issues could be looked at through polarized lenses, the Haves and the Have Nots, educated v. uneducated, or among racial trajectories – Black and White. Today, it isn’t that simple. While those dichotomies have not disappeared… the economy, globalization, techonology, the web, and a growing awareness of multiracialness are changing the paradigms. It will be interesting to see where the path leads us – all of us since, ultimately, for better or worse, we are on it together.
