The Soul of the Internet
Chantal Foster
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July
10
2008
"The Internet is too powerful and too pervasive to be left as the province of people who don't need or value interpersonal conection. Every online encounter that dispenses with personal affection in favour of brusque efficiency or places self-protection ahead of empathy for others, pushes the Internet towards an online culture that is as pathological as our worst offline moments."
"How we experience the Internet in our daily lives -- whether we experience it as a dehumanizing void in which e-mail replaces face-to-face interaction, or as a meaningful community in which we discover new commonalities and connections -- is a choice we make every day, with every message we send or browser page we load. Those choices can add up to personal and social alienation, or personal and social transformation."
From 5 Ways to Shape the Soul of the Internet
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