The constantly expanding web is a self-sustaining eco-system. That is the gist of Steven Johnson's article "The Web is Like a Rain Forest." He points out that the massive amounts of information that constantly flows onto the Internet is used to maintain a healthy, balanced system. What Johnson does not talk about, whether by choice or not, is the data that is either never seen or barely seen by anyone.
I guess I would correlate this to a kind of web Darwinism. Johnson points out that the good stuff is linked to and recycled many times over, but says nothing of the lonely web pages that crawl off into a corner of the web to die. This is extremely important, as there is just not enough time in the day to be able to sift through all the information that passes onto the Internet. There needs to be a process where the weak are weeded out, and the strong goes to the top. I guess the question is, What doesn't Darwinism apply to?
Without this, it would be way too time consuming and tedious to find a good tidbit of information on the Internet.
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it's a jungle indeed...so much information, what do you know what to use? There's contradicting information all the time on certain issues, which makes me very confused...
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