The Network By Itself Is Meaningless. Only

It Is Impossible To Work In Information Technology Without Also Engaging In Social Engineering.

At The Turn Of The [21st] Century It Was Really Sergey Brin At Google Who Just Had The Thought Of, Well, If We Give Away All The Information Services, But We Make Money From Advertising, We Can Make Information Free And Still Have Capitalism. But The Problem With That Is It Reneges On The Social Contract Where People Still Participate In The Formal Economy. And It's A Kind Of Capitalism That's Totally Self-defeating Because It's So Narrow. It's A Winner-take-all Capitalism That's Not Sustaining.

We Have Repeatedly Demonstrated Our Species's Bottomless Ability To Lower Our Standards To Make Information Technology Look Good.

Separation Anxiety Is Assuaged By Constant Connection. Young People Announce Every Detail Of Their Lives On Services Like Twitter Not To Show Off, But To Avoid The Closed Door At Bedtime, The Empty Room, The Screaming Vacuum Of An Isolated Mind.

One Good Test Of Whether An Economy Is Humanistic Or Not Is The Plausibility Of Earning The Ability To Drop Out Of It For A While Without Incident Or Insult.