“Twenty-five years after the first website went online, it is clear that we are living through a period of dizzying transition. For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered in a fixed format, one that encouraged readers to believe in stable and settled truths.

Agora, somos apanhados numa série de batalhas confusas entre forças opostas: entre a verdade e a falsidade, o facto e o rumor, a bondade e a crueldade; entre os poucos e os muitos, os conectados e os alienados; entre a plataforma aberta da Web, tal como os seus arquitectos a imaginaram, e os recintos fechados do Facebook e de outras redes sociais; entre um público informado e uma multidão mal orientada.

What is common to these struggles – and what makes their resolution an urgent matter – is that they all involve the diminishing status of truth. This does not mean that there are no truths. It simply means, as this year has made very clear, that we cannot agree on what those truths are, and when there is no consensus about the truth and no way to achieve it, chaos soon follows.”

Como a tecnologia perturbou
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/12/how-technology-disrupted-the-truth
via Instapaper