Barry Jones was asked (by Crikey) for his 200 words about the 2020 summit. He is a member of one of the groups. He was also asked the following:
Issue you have changed your mind over in last 10 years. What is it? What changed your mind?
I was wrong to assume that the Information Revolution would be an instrument of personal liberation and an explosion of creativity, raising the quality of public debate, encouraging evidence-based decision-making, enhancing rationality, and weakening fundamentalism and fanaticism. Instead, it has entrenched tribalism, dogmatism and retreat into the realm of the personal. The Information Age has increased the power of information providers, has been characterised by domination of public policy by managerialism, replacement of ‘the public good’ by ‘private benefit’, the relentless ‘dumbing down’ of mass media, linked with the cult of celebrity, and substance abuse.
Crikey.com
18 April 2008
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