“Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive. Forget trying to form grass roots political activism by creating a society of computer users, forget trying to be the ‘people’s university’ and create a body of well informed citizens. Instead I helped people navigate through the degrading hoops of modern online society, fighting for scraps from the plate, and then kicking back afterwards by pretending to have a farm on Facebook (well, that is if they had any of their 2 hours left when they were done).”
It’s a sad thing when you realise the depth of the digital divide and how one of the great hopes of the internet has in this way completely failed itself. But that’s just one of many reasons to continue reading codacorolla’s epic metafilter comment.
3 Notes. Permalink. Sun, Feb 19th 2012, 5:09 PM (∞).
