"We are the web"?

I might be reiterating what everyone already knows, but here's the link to the "We Are the Web" article that's featured on "The Machine is Us/ing Us." It historicizes the rise of Web 2.0 and predicts the next step in the web's evolution, which might potentially stimulate some interesting discussion.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html

Turning to old-fashioned printed material, Ellen Ullman's "The Museum of Me," published in Harper's (May 2000) is a counter-argument to the "Time Person of the Year: You"/"We Are the Web" train of thought. Instead of creating a human network, she argues that the Internet is really an asocial space and even suggests that it widens the rift between the haves and the have-nots. It's a rather conservative take on Internet culture, but it provoked some insightful responses from my students, who were divided on her opinion. Strangely enough, said issue is uploaded onto EBSCO but this particular article is missing. I've uploaded the file, scanned from a reader, into our Google groups page. Tried to link it here, but can't figure out how.