worship the glitch

fred-wilson:

can we perhaps all agree the web, from now on, is inherently social, and referring to social media is akin to referring to the movies (moving pictures remember) as The Talkies in the 30’s, when it was finally commercially viable (not to mention reliable) to synch image and sound. I fee like that is where we’re at right now, and while it is understandable that we seek out terms to define what this “otherness” is, I think we need to move beyond digital being a “thing”, and stop talking like social media and the Internet will ever be separate things.

Originally posted as a comment by davidgillespie on A VC using Disqus.

I’d love this to happen, but I don’t expect us to get there anytime soon.  Radio Shack still sells an astonishing amount of speakers/headphones labeled “digial ready” despite the CD being in the mainstream for over two decades.  We’re destined to be a vast army of internet-enabled Mr. Burns Clones talking about bathiolas, autogyros, deceleratrixes, petroleum distillate, jumping boxes and horseless sleighs.