That’s an interesting opinion that the “internet allows us not to think.” The statement alone is unclear mainly because the internet allows us to do so many things. What aspect of the internet is he referring to? For all all I know the internet is a hammer that someone knocked me unconscious with, certainly a state in which I am not allowed to do any thinking.

I guess Crichton is afraid that the internet makes it easier for more people to adopt a “mob mentality” and that the internet allow people to be more lazy and complacent and just accept the first thing they see or read as fact.

Even if this is true, the internet at the same time allows us to do our own investigation and to find further information to either solidfy our opinions or change them. Of course, the internet is fraught with misinformation but just like anything we read whether in a book or on the internet, we are assuming in the good faith that the information is legitimate without any first hand proof.

Bottom line is, internet or no internet, there will always be people who just parrot what others say. It’s just human nature sometimes which is what I think is really what we fear the most. We fear that stupid people will multiply and allow bad, conniving people to rule the world. Or something, honestly I don’t know what I’m trying to say anymore.

Love to discuss Net Neutrality with ya.

I could give a crap about the feds. They can read me emails all they like.

Your savvy firewall won’t stop them Rusty see they have inroads thru all the servers.
Because they own all the telco companies.

No DivineShadow, that’s not what I meant at all.

And thank you for that sage tech savy wisdom. “Hacked” you say? And without any problems? I’ll just have to set my firewall to “on” in Windows Vista.

And I don’t want to tell you how to live your life but maybe the feds would have a harder time reading your emails if you stopped posting them in public comment sections on highly trafficed blogs.

Did I say that right, “blogs”?

I’ve read about it. Its so-far going to be called the Grid.

Imo I know that every email is not private. If the feds wanted to read this email they could, I would never know.
If you have web access your computer can be hacked into without any problems.

One reason the government dosnt publically interfer.
They can anyway and you would never know.

Just because I’m curious, what’s your opinion on net neutrality? There’s something of a disagreement about that among the A. Jones / R. Paul types.

Thats off topic…..shhhhh

The reason? It’s boring. There’s nothing to do online (that interests me) anymore. I’d much rather be out doing things with people.

As long as the gov stays out of the web I’m happy. However on some cases Sonnenfield brings up a few good points.