Loading...Web 2.0 Summit 08: Isaac Mao (Social Brain Foundation), High
- There are two paradigms: One is censorship and 'sharism':
- Both are different models and are applicable to financial, technical and governance worlds.
- We have had a 10 fold increase in information.
- Different kinds of information arose from different kinds of devices.
- This increase rate will not stop.
- There is a reason why people choose to share.
- Social setting prevent us from sharing.
- Web content is becoming smaller in granularity.
- With a time stamp and URL you can reference and find the time of the information creation.
- People work to generate smaller scale information and can connect to each other.
- The original gap between public and private space can be eliminated with a new spectrum.
- This is the Yin Yang balance.
- China has the great firewall censorship system.
- There has to be some disruption to this. As a result we see more Web 2.0 applications in China.
- Media is changing too. The traditional propaganda model is hierarchical: Reporters, editors, broadcasters.
- We now have a many-to-many model. People no longer rely on a single information channel.
- We now include the professional and the grassroots media.
- Truth can be revealed by the collaboration of two worlds.
- We can create our own social pathways now.
