We Already Knew That Kids Learned Computer

Back In The 1980s, When The Internet Was Only Available To A Small Number Of Pioneers, I Was Often Confronted By People Who Feared That The Strange Technologies I Was Working On, Like Virtual Reality, Might Unleash The Demons Of Human Nature. For Instance, Would People Become Addicted To Virtual Reality As If It Were A Drug? Would They Become Trapped In It, Unable To Escape Back To The Physical World Where The Rest Of Us Live? Some Of The Questions Were Silly, And Others Were Prescient.

People Try To Treat Technology As An Object, And It Can't Be. It Can Only Be A Channel.

An Economy Where Advertisers Thrive While Journalists And Artists Struggle, Reflects The Values Of A Society More Interested In Deception And Manipulation Than In Truth And Beauty

When You Have A Global Mush, People Lose Their Identity, They Become Pseudonyms, They Have No Investment And No Consequence In What They Do.

At A Minimum If We Can Just Have Enough Distribution Of Clout In Society So It Isn't Run By A Tiny Minority, Then At The Very Least It Gives Us Some Room To Breathe.