The aggregated "wisdom of the crowd," epitomized by Google and Wikipedia, is rife with opinion, misinformation, and lies because Web 2.0 creates an "environment where anyone can say anything," Keen argued. And that's "a bad thing for the cultural producers, the creative class,"

Web 3.0 is better.

because Web 2.0 creates an "environment where anyone can say anything," Keen argued.

That isn't even remotely close to being true!

Wikipedia, for example, does not allow anyone to say anything and if there are persistent efforts to say things considered to be false the article will be locked.

I do not know of a single place on the Internet where one can say anything they like without being subject to censorship!
The ISP will also censor sometimes at the behest of commercial interests!

I too don't understand a common hatred against Wikipedia. I'm not all that familiar with how it is maintained, but it is my understanding that it is moderated by the community so that blatantly false information is weeded out.

I like wiki's. Even if the info is false I can often get a grasp of meaning from the entries that leads me to more reliable data. I also like the scifi wiki and all the mini-wikis that are out there.

Exactly! I'm not advocating its the final source of information, but it does provide some good starting points on many things.

No one should consider any source the final authority, and especially not do so automatically.

Wikipedia receives a lot of criticism, but it does have tons of accurate information and nothing stops one from looking further.

I have long said that there needs to be a consumer protection agency for information.There needs to be not a forbidding of information, but a reliable stamping of the validity of information that can be establish to the degree possible in our world as a backbone to the more speculative and outright dishonest harvest already so abundant!

I read recently that the frequency of error in Wikipedia was quite similar to the frequency of error in one of the major commercially-produced encyclopedias. It's not like we're competing against perfection.