I had a thought.
I had a thought as I was pouring concentrated hydrochloric acid into my 50 mL beaker during chemistry lab. Mind you, having a thought other than “Please dear God, don’t let me spill this highly corrosive acid on my skin,” is not a very safe thing to happen during a chemistry lab filled with expensive glassware, corrosive acids and highly reactive solutions.
Nevertheless, I had a thought.
It’s baffling how pouring acid into my responsive solution can lead me to ponder the existence of the real world, but it did.
With thousands of people logging on, searching, surfing and more or less believing the information on the web, what in this world is real if it is not there?
Tim Berner’s Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web proposed this same idea when describing and promoting his invention. “If it isn’t on the Web, it doesn’t exist,” he said.
Well he was wrong.
if it’s on the web, it’s fake. it’s fantasy. nobody trusts what is written. the web dehumanizes people. It’s the age of untruths. nothing on the internet is valid.
watch from 6min on.
Pouring very real and very dangerous chemicals into a flask in Chemistry class is real, the trees outside are real, my roommate sitting next to me on the couch, he’s real. What is put on the web might not be.
The web is a matrix of personal publishing, search engines, articles, online communities and anything a monkey with a computer with access to the internet can put up.
Who’s to say what is on the web is real. Wikipedia users post information daily that may not be truthful or accurate.
The web cannot be trusted for truthful information, therefore, it cannot be trusted to be real.
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