In an interview by Jeff Trachtenberg of the Wall Street Journal with the author of "Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob," Lee Siegel, he gives some interesting, contrarian views as to the value of the Internet in the interactive age.
Here's some of the points he makes in the interview, which you can see below:
* People are now "interacting with phantoms"
* These are "connected points of isolation"
* Popular culture used to draw you to what "you were interested in"
* Now pop culture draws you to "what other people are interested in"
* You can no longer "take refuge in your own interior being"
* People now attack "through cloaked identities"
* The internet is a "marvel of convenience" - not a utopian place
The interview below is definitely worth taking a look at. I first found it at Peter Black's "Freedom to Differ."
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