Remember when they called it that? If you'd told me then that such a device would make it easier, not harder, for the average citizen to stay isolated and uninformed... head below sand... I would not have believed it.
We've known for a long time that the opinions and outrage of a massive audience can be manipulated. It didn't take long to figure out that a fragile, entitled and uninformed audience is more vulnerable to this manipulation. Now they're seeing how much faster and easier it is when the audience only pays attention to one source. Soon, I think, somebody will realize that this kind of control is well worth the price of broadband, and start handing it out for free.
I know how addicted I am to the internet. Imagine it was all pervasive and completely mobile... indeed a logical and not-too-far-off proposition. Who would go without?
I was imagining my parents walking around with Glenn Beck whispering in their ears, or trying to have a conversation with somebody who has talking points scrolling past... right next to my face on his head-up-display.
I'm too sleepy to be thinking out-loud in print for all the Internets (ha!) to see. That last sentence proves it's own point.
And yes, this was Salt Lake City yesterday. It looks just like today.
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