Matt’s Cuppa

Good post. Not only is Web 2.0 getting boring, but at our current pace and with current technology (even hybrid or alternative tech) the Earth can’t sustain us much longer. We need to stop making toys and start making big changes in order to avoid even bigger consequences. That’s not to say that there are not lessons to be learned from the social web. There are, but now we’ve got to start implementing them on a much broader scale.

This manifesto for change comes at an important time, when a recent, but growing trend of Web 2.0 ennui is beginning to strike the citizens of the social media landscape. Even VC Fred Wilson was recently caught wondering if he was “bored with Web 2.0,” saying:

But I am a bit jealous of friends who are working on finding and funding alternative energy or biomedical technologies that have the potential to address the serious problems facing the world. At times it seems that helping the web become more social, intelligent, mobile, and playful is not as impactful.

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com Bored With Web 2.0? Demand Change In April, Umair Haque posted a manifesto on his blog on the Harvard Business Publishing web site where he called for today’s investors and start-ups to start building applications to “change the world” instead of just making apps that make money. He challenged Silicon Valley to find a problem to fix that will change the world for the better and then pledged that he would help by providing free consulting. Recently, he revisited this topic which he was due to speak on at this year’s Supernova conference. In this latest post, a summary of the speech Haque had planned for the conference, he claimed that 21st century capitalism needs a revolution. As businesses focus solely on profits, large part’s of the world’s population still fight extreme poverty. And our wealth, he says, isn’t even sustainable:

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