Web 2.0

After reading the Web 2.0 pieces, I can't say that there is a lot of surprises. Are they teaching Library 2.0 in library school? Is this something that our next generation of trained librarians are bringing with them? In this changing age, I hold to the tenent that we are going to be irreplacible for the amount of information filtering we will do. Everywhere you go, it is information all the time. With so much coming at us, it is going to be our responsibility to help people filter through the bad and poor quality information. This almost beggs another questions for me. (I was a history major.) In this age of free information, will we ever see a rise of dictatorships again? Most violent leaders would destroy information to keep people ignorant. Interesting? The fact that Web 2.0 can have such broad scope ramifications is completely unprecidented. Probably hasn't happened since the creating of the American Constitution and the security of democracy in the World.