I think it's good to remember the nice things about pre-internet and try to protect them/bring them back.
But the internet has one very important job: Allow us to prevent global climate catastrophe. It would be impossible without the internet. Only by integrating all of our cultures together into one giant knot, and having armies of people coordinating together in loose federation can we implement the myriad social, architectural, and cultural changes that we need to do in order to prevent a major environmental calamity from becoming an ecosystem-leveling tragedy.
That sounds very grandiose, and perhaps I'm out of touch, but I'm not really pumping it up for rhetorical effect. That's a pretty flat representation of what I actually believe we are facing.
We have already crossed the point of no return. At the rate humanity is going it will take at least 20 years to stop increasing our carbon footprint let alone stop or reverse it.
And most of the climate studies have been wrong not that there is no climate change instead most studies have been too conservative the rate of change is a lot faster.
But the internet has one very important job: Allow us to prevent global climate catastrophe. It would be impossible without the internet. Only by integrating all of our cultures together into one giant knot, and having armies of people coordinating together in loose federation can we implement the myriad social, architectural, and cultural changes that we need to do in order to prevent a major environmental calamity from becoming an ecosystem-leveling tragedy.
That sounds very grandiose, and perhaps I'm out of touch, but I'm not really pumping it up for rhetorical effect. That's a pretty flat representation of what I actually believe we are facing.