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Glorious movie there...
Glorious movie there...
Its hard to believe we went through 1000 years of ignorance shortly after the first steam engine was invented in the 1st century AD by Heron in Alexandria.
I ponder that very thing, to one extent or another, ever single day. I've been an Internet user since before there was a "world wide web". The realization of how powerful this thing was hit me like a ton of bricks the first time I used Gopher to find some piece of information and found it in seconds, on a system in Taiwan. I was immediately struck with how the transformative nature of this tool would come to affect the world. Gopher, and access to it, was at the time, the province of serious geeks, but within a very few years, hypertext and all the tools that followed it, did indeed revolutionize the sharing of information. That revolution is, arguably, at least as profound as the one spawned by the printing press.Here's a thought I'd like us all to ponder. How much worse has it gotten since the dawn of the Information Age? Will the black lash overcome our advancements in the near term?
... And I hate being a "glass half empty" type, but I fear that, because of apathy and fear on the part of the populace, and because of a combination of greed and stunning ignorance on the part of our elected representatives, this trend is going to continue.
And I firmly believe our freedom could some day be placed in jeopardy due to the poison being posted daily on any number of subjects.