tombo2008

I don't doubt that the ability to have the average man on the street report on things and upload them to twitter etc. is a force for good, but the potential for miscommunication due to the lack of structure surrounding such uploads is a weakness that traditional media does not experience given that all work must pass editors in those cases. I know that doesn't stop all BS stories but its a check/balance at least that doesn't currently exist at all on social media.

Im not sure what you mean by the 'Era of Experts', much less it coming to an end. Can you explain this further?

Im all for making people come out of their ivory towers a bit more but to suggest that having high levels of knowledge in a given subject is somehow a negative seems an odd position to take. But maybe Im reading you wrong?

Good to know. I shudder when I think of how much time I've wasted over the past 5 years or so with that social media rubbish.

Planning to do that this week actually. Just have to make sure all the folks I know on Facebook have me email address and I'm good to go.

I am so sorry I ever joined that f*cking site.

Mr. Orwell? Big fan - may I have your autograph? :)

"That sounds like a very nice world to live in. It also doesn't sound much like our world. It's certainly not how any country on Earth operates."

We've had a system not a million miles different from the one described in Ireland since the 70's/80's. There are grants for school uniforms and books for those that cant afford them, the cost of a college degree is not exorbitant and is again covered by a grant for those that cant afford it (I went to college with several guys who were on the grant) There's always the focus on getting a job, for obvious reasons, but there are plenty of people who go back and re skill with a 2nd degree.

Very well said, 10/10.

10/10 Well said.