tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post6341506897757721847..comments2024-03-27T12:30:52.619-04:00Comments on Lost in the Bozone: Privacy Has Left the BuildingMRMacrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01414173517957120477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-35595883246039286032013-08-15T22:30:34.488-04:002013-08-15T22:30:34.488-04:00All was well when it was just the internet, but th...All was well when it was just the internet, but the introduction of html made commercializing the web too tempting for hucksters. Bill Clinton's Telecommunication Act of 1996 certainly helped to speed up the process.<br /><br />Meanwhile, you're right that there's also much that is good about the web. I can spend so much time doing research I can forget what topic I intended to write a post about. susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-72839611807980763662013-08-14T23:11:42.353-04:002013-08-14T23:11:42.353-04:00A few months ago there was a joke going around -- ...A few months ago there was a joke going around -- a person from the present telling someone from the 1950s:<br /><br />"With this little hand-held device, I can instantly access every piece of information that was ever created, and I can communicate with anyone anywhere in the world. I use it to look at funny pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers."Tom Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05610417770240609022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-28897870288492557612013-08-14T21:58:22.377-04:002013-08-14T21:58:22.377-04:00I've had good and bad experiences on the inter...I've had good and bad experiences on the internut, my recent trip to Montana two meet for two days of camping and Fishing with <a href="http://tryingnottodie.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">DOC TERI</a> and her hubby was a very good experience.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-77658343958606062972013-08-14T17:52:56.921-04:002013-08-14T17:52:56.921-04:00I like the internet because it allows me to virtua...I like the internet because it allows me to virtually connect with people I would not otherwise know or meet. I tend to ignore sites that express a view opposite my own; I NEVER read comments on news sites; I use it for information gathering. Other than that, the internet is crazy hodgepodge of ideas all jammed together, and screaming for attention. Most of the time I just tell it to STFU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-88201248195174941222013-08-13T23:45:49.858-04:002013-08-13T23:45:49.858-04:00The internet certainly does give mob mentality and...The internet certainly does give mob mentality and hucksterism greater mobility, and that is a cause for pessimism. It gives me pause to think sometimes that "this could have been such a great thing". But then, enter human nature...<br /><br />Despite that, it can still be great, and it can, as you point out, deliver the goods for those who need it. The net has made things easier for lots of us in lots of ways. <br /><br />But your last paragraph sums it all up pretty neatly! Beware, beware... Almost like that old Walt Kelly thing about "We have met the enemy and he is us"! <br /> <br /><br />Snavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763424943041003098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-21506762219855807882013-08-13T14:07:39.184-04:002013-08-13T14:07:39.184-04:00tools don't change people. The human race ha... tools don't change people. The human race has not changed since the beginning of time...we have just developed more advanced tools and weapons. <br />the Ol'Buzzard Ol'Buzzardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00075162476463971258noreply@blogger.com