The Internet could be the place where anyone learns to think, but we mostly use it to copy the nearest loudmouth.
Enlightenment geeks imagined curious citizens; evolution delivered glucose‑saving herd animals with Wi‑Fi.
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The Internet, now deliberately useless.
If, during the Enlightenment, you had told people that one day the sum of all human knowledge would be available to everyone, Diderot, d’Alembert and Voltaire would have positively purred with satisfaction. For men like them, the very idea of knowledge being instantly accessible to anyone curious enough to