The Internet and the Fall of Civilization
Good grief there's a lot of intellectual wanking over the Internet versus Life As We Used To Know It.
Here's Sooey's take on it for all the handwringers out there: If the Internet was not available to me, I would spend more time talking to myself and going without information I really don't need to feed and clothe myself adequately for an Ottawa winter.
I mean, all it is - is more. It's not anything different in terms of information, it's just more of it. And since I know people both with and without the Internet who live much more informed lives than I do, I don't think it's the Internet that either informs or doesn't inform people.
Think of your bookshelf. Mine, I can tell you, is full of books I've never read and never will read because I also buy cooking magazines and whenever I think, "What'll I make for dinner?" which is surprisingly often - probably the most oft asked question of myself - I pick up one of my cooking magazines and leaf through it for ideas. Sometimes, I get so absorbed in the idea of making dinner, that I end up not having enough time to do anything in the magazine. That's when I make one of my stand-by dinners.
That happens almost every day, by the way.
