If only Foucault had lived to see the Internet...
"I dream of a new age of curiosity. We have the technical means for
it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite; the
people who can employ themselves at this task exist. What are we
suffering from? From too little: from channels that are too narrow,
skimpy, quasi-monopolistic, insufficient. There is no point in
adopting a protectionist attitude, to prevent "bad" information from
invading and suffocating the "good". Rather we must multiply the
paths and the possibility of comings and goings... Which doesn't
mean, as is often feared, the homogenization and leveling from below.
But on the contrary, the differentiation and simultaneity of
different networks." -Michel Foucault