Opened up the new issue of Wired last night to find a mini-interview with best selling novelist Caleb Carr. His new dystopian novel, Killing Time, is set in 2024 and blames an unregulated Internet for the collapse of civilization. Whatever, but this quote really made me wonder if he even uses Internet,
Wired: Isn’t TV as easy to fake as the Net?
Carr: At least TV tries to check stuff out. Look, the Internet is basically a tool for buying things and for pornography. When it becomes more than that, it will become extremely dangerous.
Maybe that’s all Carr uses the Internet for, but I think the rest of us have found other uses for it as well. (And television is notorious for not “check[ing] stuff out.”)