Computation and access to information are sources of power within our civilization -- ensuring easy access to both should be a goal of our society, lest one gro

Computation and access to information are sources of power within our civilization -- ensuring easy access to both should be a goal of our society, lest one group conclude that another group is unworthy. With that power comes responsibility. It is on us to promulgate cultural norms to exist in this new world, where we choose to do unto others as we would have done unto us. Humanity is so new to grappling with these changes -- we are only beginning to understand the impacts and implications inherent to our newly-constructed tools. The world was a simpler and less-connected place when I was a child -- my earliest computer memories include an 8086 and one of the first few 1200 bps modems in our entire town of 30,000 people. Uploading a single image from my smartphone at those rates would, in the best case, take more than five hours. None of us earned the internet ourselves. It emerged through the uncoordinated efforts of billions of people. We limit access to it at our collective peril.