A number of very interesting books have been released over the past year or two which debate how the Internet is reshaping our culture and the economy.

This collection looks interesting. Is anyone familiar with Cass Sunstein's books? -- "there can be no assurance of freedom in a system committed to the Daily Me."

He seems to be poking at something that has been bothering me. Here is an article.

But there is also a serious danger, which is that people will move to positions that lack merit but are predictable consequences of the particular circumstances of their self-sorting...

There is a general risk that those who flock together, on the Internet or elsewhere, will end up both confident and wrong, simply because they have not been sufficiently exposed to counterarguments. They may even think of their fellow citizens as opponents or adversaries in some kind of "war."

It is important to understand that countless editions of the Daily Me can also produce serious problems of mutual suspicion, unjustified rage, and social fragmentation -- and that these problems will result from the reliable logic of social interactions.

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