"I am not against change since change is not only inevitable but desirable and necessary. My worry lies in the fear that virtual trash becomes the bedrock for civilization in the 21st century. That would mean, that any decent ideas that evolve out of the eternal struggle to survive with honour, would be doomed to crumble in the desperate scramble to escape reality.

Each new generation is born with a longer future and each will require a deeper, wider, more fundamental understanding of self, in order to pursue the elusive goal of fulfillment for all. Modern technology is a tool as useful to us as was the flint axe head to Homo Erectus. If we use a tool as a weapon then the futility of it all will lay waste our efforts and expose its motives for what it has become - a manipulator of empty lives."

-Ralph Steadman

I just had to post this. Steadman is the coolest old person on the planet. And the fact that it was sent to me by my brilliant and creative daughter ... well, that makes her the coolest young person on the planet.

I will comment more tomorrow. Time for the OFF switch. :-)