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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Is the Web helping us evolve?

The truth lies somewhere between "Google is making us stupid" and "the Internet will liberate humanity."
By David Brin

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  • Tuesday, December 23, 2008 02:33 PM

    David Brin responds...

    Allie! What a refreshing comment. Cogent and informed and interested in the topic without a short-tempered fuse, contributing an anecdote and an insight to the discussion. That is, if this had been anything remotely like the "discussion" that even takes place in my teenager's civics class...

    You illustrate how grownups might engage in discourse without gatekeepers. Which really is my aim.

    Please do consider coming by http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ some time.

    Thrive all, and happy holidays, and here's hoping for a civilization by and of cogent adults, though FOR our descendants.

    —David Brin Read David Brin's other letters

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