Everything we hate about the media today was present at its creation: its corrupt or craven practitioners, its easy manipulation by the powerful, its capacity for propagating lies, its penchant for amplifying rage. Also present was everything we admire — and require — from the media: factual information, penetrating analysis, probing investigation, truth spoking to power. Same as it ever was.
Brain studies suggest that consuming information on the Internet develops different cognitive abilities, so it’s likely we are being rewired now in response to our technology. That process doesn’t stop. It can’t stop. And even the most strident critics of the Internet cannot truly wish for it to stop, considering how far we have come since we grasped that first tool.
there is something magical about park benches. as soon as your body touches it, reminiscence, innovations, epiphanies begin to pour. perhaps it is the traditionalism of it, compared to today's digital age. perhaps it is the legacy of many stories told upon a park bench. but whatever it is, please feel free to take a seat.
