User:Roger tompson

For better or worse we are all denizens of the ever-growing Invisible City of the Worldwide Web. Last time I checked, 1.4 billion people connected to the net every day, and the numbers keep growing. The new metropolis is still a construction site with all the customary dust, debris and rubbish; I am not saying it is an unmixed blessing. Never before in all history has there been such a variety of information, opportunities and stimuli, such easy access to goods and services, to culture and art, to the sciences, and to the red-light districts. The choices seem endless; it is short of debilitating. To constantly agonize over our choices, only to be suckered in again and again into even more research, and so waste time and energy and never stop worrying whether we may have been missing something better has become symptomatic for the overall information overload of which the full impact is still gathering; we have seen nothing yet. This is not how most of us would like to pass their lives. In the end the incessant chatter just passes us by, and we are thrown back to the screeching of chimps oblivious to the world three treetops further on.