Monday, April 23, 2012

I suppose …

… Tomgram: Lewis Lapham, Machine-Made News | TomDispatch. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


I suppose it would be unfair to regard this as just another jeremiad. The good side: Thanks to technology more information is available to more people in a convenient manner than ever before. The bad side: This does not mean that anybody is any smarter than ever before. Smart people will take the opportunity provided and make use of it in a smart way. The rest will either not avail themselves of it at all or use it in a way that is not so good or even deplorable. Smart people will, as usual, be a minority. 

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