I used to love the internet, when it was much younger (late 80s, early 90s), unfortunately the whole world joined in, which was supposedly the dream, and for a moment, a sorta-reality. We have some explaining to do on what this big shitstorm really means for the world and what it does not:
- It unites the whole world and allows us freedom to communicate. Unfortunately "whole world" means we must also include the scum of the earth. I think us computer scientists got a real wake up call as to just how much scum is indeed on the earth. I wonder if we knew these numbers prior to this, would we still have decided to go ahead and make a network that connected everyone?
- It creates false opinions about people or categorizes them into groups. I am late to the party on purpose. Because I hate participating in current threads because they more often than not turn into an arguing gallery or a finger pointing contest, marked up with snarky stupid comments that don't even matter. I am here for one reason, to add my opini