Browsing offers a break, a mini vacation from the accelerating world outside. True browsing is less about the destination than the meandering journey that gets you there. The Internet has browsers, or so they say. Actually, it is not. If anything, it should be called a searcher, for that is what it does.
Technology shapes people.
He was right. The mega-mall crowds out downtown. The Web crowds out the mall. The future crowds out the past. Some of us can wait to find out.