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  Shaping the future to come.

  I'd like to share a few ideas with you. It's about the future of Web 2.0 and its social implications.

  Everybody who still believes that large amounts of user-generated content is going to make us all happy, provide more and better entertainment and even solve political, economic and other problems is gravely mistaken. We're daily sifting through puberty-generated content: self-absorbed emo kids who want you to comment on their badly edited pictures and who collect tens of thousands of virtual friends - without getting to know them any further. And that's not fashion.
  
  The future are closed, independent and exclusive networks where smart and innovative people of like mind gather and where the dull masses are kept out. You're either a skilled, socially intelligent and open-minded networker or you're just another self-obsessed consumer who's exposed to a torrent of nonsense information and cheesy advertising. This new upper class is not interested in large amounts of virtual friends nor large amounts of money, because that's just outdated capitalism and stylistically sizzled puberty. If you want to feed and pet your ego, please go somewhere else - we're not paying attention! What truly matters today is talent-generated content. The keywords here are: curiosity, generosity, intelligence, prowess and social skills.
  
  You can't buy your way into the virtual halls of the new ruling class, neither can you attract their attention with embarrassing standard pictures that everybody else has already taken a million times. If you lack style and talent, you're going to be a helpless loser in an increasingly meritocratic society.

  Posted 15 Feb 08