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The world wide web is a modern miracle - a source of boundless information; a publishing place for budding authors, musicians, movie makers and opiners. The problem is that when any old Joe can contribute to the global information bank, how can we trust w
We download for free; let the public report; leave knowledge creation in the hands of the crowd. Is this numbing our tastes and lowering our standards for truth? Is the cost of having more for free that when it comes to quality we are satisfied with less.
more on debate about whether internet dumbs down to lowest common denominator or whether it promotes democratic access to info, means of authorship etc
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