I love being anonymously hotwired to a spider web network of fiber optic veins that pulses inches below the concrete, spurting packets of data from my computer out to anyone else who I can convince to listen. But I digress. I just don't think I can. I don't think that it's possible. In this glorious information age, communication is mandatory.
Information is pervasive.
Take a step forward and 500 megabytes of someone's doctoral dissertation slides beneath your legs, another step and 1,000 megs of pornography sweep by. I could swear off technology, but it would be an empty act of defiance. Besides, sometimes it's comforting to know that people can always reach me when they need to. It's good to know that people care, and that in an emergency I can also reach them. It's exciting to be part of the Global Community.