![]() It is utterly strange to hear my many old friends in the world of digital culture claim to be the true sons of the Renaissance without realizing that using computers to reduce individual expression is a primitive, retrograde activity, no matter how sophisticated your tools are. Julius Robert Oppenheimer (/ p n h a m r / OP-n-HY-mr Ap February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Projects Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.He is often credited as the 'father of the atomic bomb'. People will accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other form. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities, while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. MySpace preserved some of that flavor, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990S had the flavor of personhood. The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making process. ![]() “Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. ![]()
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