In a balanced world, where enabling tools were sought because we had first grasped profound ideas that needed realization, we might reasonably welcome the enablement. But in an unbalanced world where billions of dollars frenetically change course monthly, chasing the latest result of logical tinkering, there is not much hope for the triumph of ruling vision. The tinkerers do not concern themselves with content. If they did, they would no longer be in the same business. And what we see, so far as we train ourselves to follow the logic of our programs and pattern our own activity after it, is nothing but that same, vacuous information.
Nobody seems to be listening.
Meaning, by contrast, cannot be accessed. What the world needs today is the human ability to deepen the meaning of notions like ethnic identity, criminal punishment, personal destiny, and communal service. Nothing I have said here suggests that you and I cannot find ways to harness the Net's potentials to worthy ends. Permission is granted for noncommercial redistribution of this article.