Supermarket 2.0

[jrtom]

http://www.glumbert.com/media/supermarket

That is, a tongue-firmly-in-cheek imagining of what shopping at a supermarket modeled after Web 2.0 might be like. :)

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Luddite.

[fdmts.livejournal.com]

Check out The Atlantic's take on Web 2.0. In short:

...up popped a headline-news crawl. This provoked something of a flashback to 1997, when this innovation—basically, information you’ve requested being automatically delivered to your computer—was called “push technology” and was going to transform the experience of cruising the information superhighway. Wired magazine, at the very apex of its hyperbolic frenzy, infamously pronounced: “Push!” “The Web browser … is about to croak. And good riddance.”

And:

Web 2.0, a term used somewhat interchangeably with social media, carries the not-so-veiled suggestion that everything else is merely 1.0—that is to say, Cro-Magnon. Really cool people now like to talk about Web 3.0.