Last night marked the first chat for NET12 – which turned out quite well. People sort
of stayed on topic for a little while and there was some interesting, if not a little
postmodernist (!) discussion about the actual topic we were supposed to be discussing,
which, by the way, was;

To what extent has the impact of the Internet on society been revolutionary,
or has it been more evolutionary? That is, has the Internet revolutionised the way we do
things or is more a case of the internet reflecting similar issues and changes that
occurred with previous technologies?

There was some interesting discussion about what both "revolution" and
"evolution" actually mean, and then we had some comparisons and analyses of
elements of the Internet which exhibit features of one or the other, or indeed both types
of change. Was a little disappointed to only see a few other people there, and the ones
that were there, were the ones that I was expecting (not that I was disappointed to see
them, but would have been nice for some other people to turn up as well 🙂 – and there I
go with the spatial, physical representations of the virtual meeting we had… interesting.

With a bit of luck we’ll manage another one before this study period is over! 🙂