Honestly if I'd been faced with a choice between
thoroughly copy editing
Jane Fonda, and reading one of Carr's articles all the way through just
once, I'd go for Jane every time. He could have said it all in three
paragraphs. But I suppose that if you remove the references to mysticism and
evangelism you get down to an observation that's so commonplace that it can
only provoke the response: "so what?"
He's a Harvard business professor. See
http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/ -
restating the obvious is his stock in trade ;-)
But in fairness, look at what he's responding to. "Web 2.0" is a
Wired/Negroponte dot-com wank phrase.
I've chucked it on my LJ as well:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/reddragdiva/249008.html
- d.