Tuesday, October 9, 2007

I AM the TIME's Person of the Year for 2006


It is hard to explain in words the evolution of the web through out the years and the impact it is creating today around the world in people's daily life yet I believe the article TIME Person of The Year did a remarkable job of describing just that, the importance and the evolution of web 2.0. What made the article so interesting and what I agree the most with is the fact that it is YOU, it is ME, WE are responsible for it, for its everyday improvement and growth. The web needed a new name, a better and improved one because it is not only the web anymore, there is a new version to it, a new way of looking at it. Web 2.0 is the perfect name for something that is changing our lives with every minute, with every blog, every photo comment, every picture, every lyric. I am amazed at the impact the web has had on the entire world and I admire hummanity for making it evolve the way it has. On the other hand, I fear it. I fear web 2.0 is growing too fast, is becoming to reliable and too intrusive. Our lives should not, yet will depend on web 2.0 and soon it will become an invasion of our privacy. Web 2.0 is an invasion of the world.

-Miti Matamoros

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