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I once thought mass access to the internet would make society more intelligent and intellectual.. boy was I wrong.
by JojoFatsani 2y ago
I once thought mass access to the internet would make society more intelligent and intellectual.. boy was I wrong.
- caspper69 2y agoTurns out, the masses don't want to actually learn. What they want to do is share what they think, and only read things that they agree with.
- babycheetahbite 2y agoNot sure it is solely "the masses" that engage in that behavior.
- caspper69 2y agoSeemed safer to say than "everyone", because there's always exceptions.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoI wonder if Neil Postman would have wanted to live long enough to see Twitter founded.
- rbanffy 2y agoWe were all optimists back then. We should have burned the thing to the ground. I'll go a bit further: we should never have made easy-to use computers.
- throwaway989899 2y agoThis is an old mistake. But don't make the other old mistake, of putting too much power in the hands of a few who seem more promising than the rest.
- fach 2y agoToo late.