You know, if you waited for perfection, few things, if anything, would ever come to fruition.
From a software perspective, we’d never have to learn words like “Alpha” or “Beta”.
Think what we would have computer-wise if we waited until they were perfect.
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That’s right. Nothing.
No Internet Explorer. No Firefox. No Google Earth. No Microsoft Office. No OpenOffice.
In fact, as I noodle over this, I can’t think of a single thing that is Version 1.0 and complete with no enhancements in sight.
No Wikipedia. No Grolier Encyclopedia. No Science Textbooks.
Things are always changing and getting better. They get more mature; have new features; more content accuracy; enhanced safety features…
When you talk to folks about the Internet, the flaws are quick to be identified. Indeed, the Internet is no more perfect than Internet Explorer 1 or a Science Textbook or Encyclopedia that includes Pluto as a planet.
Jeff Jarvis from the United Kingdom’s “The Guardian” has a very interesting article in tomorrow’s paper. In the article, Jeff takes on the acknowledged flaws of using the Internet in his article “Let’s junk the myths and celebrate what we’ve got”. It’s a great article written from a practical, common sense point of view.
I highly recommend that you read the article and bookmark it. I’ll bet it gives you ammunition somewhere along the line.
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