Steven Johnson takes on those who complain we lose serendipity on the Web. I’m with him 100%. Even if you only go to carefully curated sites that you carefully choose, you are always one link away from the serendipitous. In fact, it takes super-human will power to get from A to B on the Web without first getting sidetracked to C,M,R, C again and then a site with photos of obscene carved pencils.

I think of the Web as an enormous distraction engine, and I share Steven’s frustration with this serendipity meme that will not die. [Tags: serendipity steven_johnson everything_is_miscellaneous]

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