The Internet, and its evolving user experience

The Internet makes you smart. The Internet makes you stupid. The Internet is killing the content industry. The Internet is enabling the content industry. The noise about the good and bad things the Internet is doing is so pervasive, who knows what to believe anymore?

John Naughton at The Guardian takes a good look at the fear and uncertainty surrounding the Internet, and posts a list of nine talking points to consider about the Internet to cut through all the confusion.

It’s a bit long to summarize, but part of it is that we’re still too close to the Internet revolution to see the full extent of the effects it will have on society. Just as it took decades or even centuries for the full impact of the Gutenberg printing press to be realized, it make be years at the least before we know the full impact of the Internet.

Another part is that the Internet was designed from the ground up to be potentially disruptive to the rest of the world. Because it was created only to distribute information and to have no central control, it is essentially, Naughton says,

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