With the Net, we're going to see ideas of a type that were almost impossible to think about earlier. Technology shapes our thought, just as our thought shapes technology. We're in a period where technology is going to re-engineer and redesign the space in which we can have thoughts. One of the effects of this new-coming thinking and literary space, due to the Web and the Net, is a continual shift into a new sphere of thinking, which is ecological, relativistic, postmodern, full of uncertainty. Philosophically, this creates and further promotes the kinds of things we've seen happening in the culture in the last two decades.
Moral certitude becomes more and more difficult to find.
Agreement on some basic societal values becomes more and more difficult. Socially, we are going to see an even more difficult period ahead. Kevin is deceptively perceptive. He sees things for what they are, but more importantly he finds things that other people haven't considered yet or haven't thought about. Kevin is a guy who is stuck in a rut, and he can't perceive that he is in a rut, and he can't extricate himself and go on to something important.