Aristos

I’ve been following Stephen Heppell’s retroblog for a while now and not for the first time an entry this morning caught my imagination.

Stephen has been asked by the organisers of the 2012 Olympic organising team to help design the media centre that will beam us sound and images of the world’s biggest sporting event. He wonders, though, the role devolved publishing and user-generated content will play at that time, given the fact that a “media revolution has begun which will have far reaching effects on the whole 2012 experience and on the way that experience is shared with people all around the world.” He’s referring, of course, to the ability of any spectator to blog, videocast and record the events they’re watching and describe in their own words and pictures what is going on. “A kayak enthusiast is probably more likely to view the Olympic kayaking through the empassioned live-video-blogs of a fellow enthusiast scattered around the white water run, than to rely on a major broadcaster to offer impersonal coverage.”

It tallies with this image I came across recently:

House diverts road (Thanks AdBakery)

…that bypassing traditional authority channels is becoming an important part of our development, learning and culture. Not that we’re rejecting them outright – just augmenting and improving upon them where we think appropriate.

The same is happening in schools. TOK presentations are finding their way onto YouTube, primary school students are podcasting and all manner of kids are blogging.

Personally, I’m looking forward to what might happen during the marathon.

From kronos to aristos – it’s time.

Lee