Geek-free Internet

As read in an excellent paper about social software “A little less conversation” by Bill Thompson for the BBC Technology News (read on nico’s mind bazar):

In fact, Bill Thompson argues that the current buzzword “social software” is anything new (there have been decades of researches into theses problems) and it is far from being at the beginning of a reorganisation of our society and our essential human nature. However he rightly points out that “it is a vital and necessary stage in the development of our thinking about the Internet, since instead of talking about it as a technology we are arguing about how we relate to other people, and the software and networks are just the ways in which we do it”.