Technobabble runs wild!
In the world I work in bioinformatics, systems biology and the genomics ‘revolution’ has thrown up some real terminology howlers, and harshly abused suffixes. The only other world that has a tendancy to fling such nonsense around is the world of IT.
I’m a convert to the concept of the semantic web. I offer a latent sneer to the post-GPL techno-utopian nonsense surrounding Web 2.0.
However Slashdot just turned up a gem:
“The legislation would have banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding — therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space.”
“e-learning 2.0 space”? Do you mean, “future school training in IT”?
A few choice comments from the ensuing discussion:
- “In any just society, whoever wrote that would swing next to Saddam, Idi Amin, and the guy who invented clamshell packaging.”
- “e-learning 2.0″? Is this a subset of Web 2.0?
This is where one can leverage their synergies to create new paradigms while using colored parachutes to find out who moved their cheese.” - “WARNING: You have exceeded your buzzword quota for the day. Any future buzzword emissions will result in fines from the EPA.”
- “I hope they are at least leveraging their e-synergies and fully embracing AJAX and SOAP in that 2.0 space.”
Glad I wasn’t the only one mortally offended by it ;)