6. The World Wide Web

According to the bifurcation paradigm, the current world process is the embryogenesis of a new planetary society. We are now proposing the idea that the World Wide Web is the nervous system of this embryo, and is currently evolving as the neurogenesis of our cultural future. According to this idea, our collective influence on the future evolution of our cul- ture may be extended through this nervous system. The leverage of a new idea, thus extended, may be many times more powerful than its leverage under previous media, such print media, radio and television broadcast, and so on. In other words, the Web may be the revolutionary medium of dreams, for those interested in influencing the creation of the future. If so, it may become the cyberfield of the perennial contest between the forces of good and evil. At least, the socially evolutionary activities infusing the Web must be of considerable interest to social activists, action researchers, historians, sociologists, historians, and students of pop. One interesting trend we have noted is that many traditional culture producers are under the influence of a paranoid, luddite attitude to the Web, and therefore tend to leave the cyberfield open to the cultural mafia.


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