Last spring, I wrote a little essay called "Digital Maoism" for the science debate Web site Edge.org, which is orchestrated by writer and literary agent John Brockman. The essay quickly took on a life of its own, spawning an ongoing series of commentary both in print and online. My central point in the original piece was that the current fad for aggregating the efforts of multitudes of people over the Internet is moving the Web in the wrong direction. The subsequent debates have touched on a number of important ideas that I would like to follow up on here.
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