Will a Wired World Have Nothing to Say? I'm not a neo-Luddite, terrified of technology. I'd rather cut my grass with a power mower than a pair of scissors. But having a lawn mower doesn't make me a landscape architect. A computer is a tool, no more, no less. Expensive, complicated and fast ? but dumb. And handing either mower or computer to children too early results in badly cut lawns. And missing brain cells.
When future historians (if there are any) write of the decline of American intelligence, they will focus on the digital revolution. And discover, with irony, it was called progress. We became connected to everyone. With nothing to say.
