“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Internet culture seems to want to promote two values that, when combined, cannot help but produce some mischief. How much mischief remains to be seen, but the values to which I refer are anonymity and the wisdom of crowds (a ...
Yesterday, I was listening to a discussion with Tom Brokaw broadcast on NPR from The Commonwealth Club. Asked his opinion of news and information in the digital age, the veteran journalist said that he believes the variety of available content is generally a benefit to the world but that the consumer must “apply filters” to the information being delivered. In ...
