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The following opinions of mine would be original, but Michael Crichton beat me to the act of writing them down a few years ago.
The Internet has certainly made an incredible change in human affairs and society like perhaps none other in human history. However, in order for society to remain stable, it must be diverse. In some respects, the Internet dissolves part of that precious diversity by connecting everyone around the world and making us part of a larger whole society. In other words, we are becoming a more uniform society with our diversity imbedded instead of palpable.
When society becomes uniform, it becomes stagnant. And the very volatile dynamic of the self-organizing behavior of human society shows that when we become stagnant, we tend to break out of that state in highly dramatic (and cataclysmic) ways.
Otherwise, it's way cool, dude.
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Living is easy with eyes closed.
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