The Internet (and especially the WWW) suffered the fate of television: advertising and banality consumed the user's time. The difference is that Internet/WWW a

The Internet (and especially the WWW) suffered the fate of television: advertising and banality consumed the user's time. The difference is that Internet/WWW also involved some degree of technical and creative understanding, whereas twaddlevision is passive absorption. All told, I would say the the Internet/WWW is progress. But like any human progress, there is a deplorable waste of opportunity.