-Mitchell Kapor
I have an almost religious
zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for
me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living
creature, linking up.
-Dan Millman
At its best, the Internet
can educate more people faster than any media tool. At its worst, it
can make people dumber faster than any media tool. Because the
Internet has an aura of "technology" surrounding it, the
uneducated believe information from it even more. They don't realize
that the Internet, at its ugliest, is just an open sewer: an
electronic conduit for untreated, unfiltered information. Just when
you might have thought you were all alone with your extreme views,
the Internet puts you together with a community of people from around
the world who hate all the things and people you do. You can scrap
the BBC and just get your news from those Websites that reinforce
your own stereotypes.
-Thomas Friedman
