A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Your theory is crazy - but not crazy enough to be true. The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. No machine ever volunteered more information than it asked.
Most virtues have little merit unless they are spontaneous and unself-conscious.
One's first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated. No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society. It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.