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Engeström luonnehti MIT Technology Reviewn elokuun juttua Social Machines parhaaksi lukemakseen kiteytykseksi Web 2.0 - termistä. Juttu on tosiaan lukemisen väärti.

"The third trend nudging us into a new era of computing is probably the most important and the least expected. It is the emergence of the Web as a platform for personal publishing and social software. The examples are as diverse as informational sites such as blogs, craigslist, and Wikipedia

and services such as Gmail, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Delicious. All of these are examples of what software developers and Internet pundits have begun to call "Web 2.0": the transformation of the original Web of static documents

[ Static documents: Web 1.0 consisted largely of text files jazzed up with browser-readable HTML instructions on how to display the text and where to find related files. Web 2.0 is more like a collection of programs that talk to one another.]

into a collection of pages that still look like documents but are actually interfaces to full-fledged computing platforms."

Aika hyvin selitetty.

Mutta ennen kuin itse käytännössä kokeilee Last FM:n ja Flickrin kaltaisia informaation kerrytys-jakamis-elämys-palveluita, ei välttämättä tajua, millaisesta muutoksesta ja mahdollisuudesta on kyse. EPICin käsikirjoittajat osuvat kyllä ihan maaliin.