Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Posted
7:30 PM
by Gene
The Internet is a new world of media, fertile and endlessly receptive to communication needs of all kinds. It could very well become so overwhelmed by commercial and political stratagems, so cluttered and so untrustworthy that it winds up utterly useless for honest communication.
That possibility is not, as Herbert Hoover put it, ''inconceivable.'' It has already happened with local radio -- and it has happened with the postal service, which has become primarily a conduit for junk mail.
The Internet can still be saved. But it won't save itself.Do I hear the cancer curers fuming again?(Via Romy, of all places)
|