"[The Internet] machine has created a culture that requires instant access to everything. This is a counterfeit attitude at greater leisure, when everyone knows that the greatest leisure comes from taking things slowly. This machine has made news, opinion and opinion, fact."
Society has certainly changed. Newspapers no longer report, they discuss. It is a presentation of their viewpoint on events. And most newspapers claim things to be newsworthy that aren't even news. Like the dress-sense of Gordon Brown. Or the likelihood of alien invasions being calculated by coma induced students at Brunel University.
And then the obvious: "we don't have any news so lets do a double page spread of gossip, letting us know how many time Lindsay Lohan has married women, and the photogenic nature of Brad Pitt's vegetable patch" (no euphemism intended).
The Internet is both an incredible gift, and a terrible curse. I could quote stat after stat if how much pornography is uploaded every minute. Only 10% of which (approximately) is legal. The rest is even more depraved and depicts animal, children, and a large bottle of Tabasco to eyes of the film maker when I catch him.
Googe has made the Internet smaller, then expanded it again. And all the time we get message after message that we've won the 10000000000000 visitor prize every time we visit that web page. And I get emails every 3-4 minutes telling me my penis is too small when there are only a select few who've seen it and they aren't the kind of people to start working for 'enlargement' organisations (sorry mum).
In all of this we have a smaller world, cheaper products, undiscovered creativity being made readily available, and free thought (within reason) flying left, right, and centre, while wikipedia tries desperately to pick up the pieces of misinformed citations letting everyone know that Hitler was a type of cheese.
Thank you Internet.
Sincerely
Toby (writer thanks to my ISP)
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