We were all optimists back then.

We should have burned the thing to the ground. I'll go a bit further: we should never have made easy-to use computers.

Turns out, the masses don't want to actually learn.

What they want to do is share what they think, and only read things that they agree with.

Seemed safer to say than "everyone", because there's always exceptions.

This is an old mistake. But don't make the other old mistake, of putting too much power in the hands of a few who seem more promising than the rest.

Too late.

I wonder if Neil Postman would have wanted to live long enough to see Twitter founded.