The Internet was a great prototype for geeks and knowledge-worker bees. But the cool kids and average folks have arrived, and the Internet has been kind of a me

The Internet was a great prototype for geeks and knowledge-worker bees. But the cool kids and average folks have arrived, and the Internet has been kind of a mess for them — what with spammers and phishers and predators and nutballs all over. ... The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routs [sic] around it, which was kind of nice. Unfortunately the Internet also interprets every unguarded email, form, website, and program as an opening into which to spray its unsolicited marketing, harassment, and malware. It's the cool kids and average folks who are the spammers and phishers and predators and nutballs. The geeks didn't invent the harassment and malware, those things saw significant increases online when everyone else invaded our utopia. The geeks may have introduced the marketing, but the average person abuses it. However, I don't think I'd wish for the old internet back. I like things like Wikipedia, feeds, APIs, Google, sharing, and all the convenience and entertainment that the modern internet affords us. And I like watching those who don't get it and are tied to pre-information age ideals or are threatened by it try to fruitlessly control it. I like that it's different every year, everyone is chasing innovation.