[Week7_2] Concentration...

Though Zook does not dig deep into the lives of the ordinary workers (programmers, webmasters, ordinary users etc) and mainly sticks to the big money movers such as the enterpreneurs and enture capitalists, the dot-com boom/burst was more than a simple high-profile money business. It was a vision for a way of life that bloomed and faded, ultimately giving way for again something different. The dot-com boom era told us ordinary people to move on to the wonderful new world of information and networked connections, or else you will become kind of 'obsolete'. It was stated as something like a new starting line, where anybody could 9and should) jump in. But as Zook demonstrated, the spatial aspects of concentrated personal networks and financial capital has not been pushed away an inch.

Then another question arises. Will it be any different in the era of the Web2.0 boom? With contents producer/consumers taking the lead, we are again flooded with the myths of decentralization by media coverages on the Chinese Lipsync brothers or the guitar wonder from South Korea. But still, it gained popularity when it went through Youtube and gained its English-speaking audience in the US. I wonder if there is some work on a map of the Internet user 'thunderlizards'. I can pretty much predict that they will as well be concentrated on some already culturally(that is financially) established metropolitan areas. All aspects of developments are never fully arbitary from each other, and we know that most of them are geographically bound.