internet - EMBA-students and a blogger at Jiaotong

Wang Jianshuo tells in one of very few entries recently about his experience when he had to explain a class of EMBA-students at Shanghai's Jiaotong University what blogging is about. Jianshuo describes it as two generations, who are living in two different world, the CEO's and the bloggers, with him as the exception.

This time, I felt a strong gap between the two generations of thinking. For example, when bloggers take it for granted that no censorship is the beauty of blogging, majority of the participants in the EMBA program think no censorship of what a blogger write will cause big trouble to the society and is something unbearable. "Hey, does anyone read what you write everyday?" I was asked by one CEO. She was obviously shocked when she was told no one read, edited and censored what I wrote. "It is too dangerous!" She commented. Well. I kept silence.

Europe is not much different, I must admit. It is so hard when you are part of cyberspace yourself to imagine that so many people have no clue what is going on. They will lose the struggle, but it might take a while, I fear.