Back when things were quieter,individuals by their sheer brilliance, created original objects of value: painting, music, books, equations to name a few.
Then the Scientific Method came along, where we stood on the "Shoulders of Genius" and saw things that would not have been possible otherwise, by systematically deriving, from the works of others.
Along came Ford. He kindled within us, the need to produce tons of objects, 'efficiently'. Computers elevated our collective pursuit for efficiency to an even grander scale.
Then something happened: the web 2.0,The Web is functioning as the great leveler, by bringing in the lazy to the same platform as the industrious, the absolutely talentless alongside the remarkably talented.
Except for the occasional Susan Boyle, these unwashed masses,are gradually ruining the place. Or to use Andrew Keene's aptly pejorative phrase, "creating digital forests of mediocrity". It is getting a lot harder to judge the fact from the fiction.
We are at a risk of collapse of the system , that we meticulously built thus far, through the toil of countless people. It is at this very stage, the trend of curation is starting to emerge.
Curation is the golden thread, that connects the individual to the artificial intelligence that we have created, i.e., the systems, processes etc.,
Curation, in isolation,merely appears to be an act of people choosing what they care about. But, in the larger scheme of things, its impact is grander like the Scientific Method and is our only savior to the mess Web 2.0 has made.
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