From: Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 07:31:20 MST
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Spike Jones wrote:
> And I will spare you the rest. It did get me to thinking however,
> what if... somehow our new heaven-sent toy were to disappear, and
> we were to go back to the way we were, before the internet. What
> if we had to rely mostly upon our neighbors for social contact?
I'm sure we could blame social isolation on pizza delivery,
television, hedges, working hours or the availability of
cheap housing (so that people live alone instead of in "merry"
communities)...
Social isolation is (as the name implies) a social problem.
Blaming it on technology won't do any good...
Furthermore, the internet seems to be a community builder
instead of a cause of social isolation. Because of that it
seems a lot better to me than television or any of the other
"causes"...
cheers,
Rik
-- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength.
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