Digital Promises
Discussion of Hubert Dreyfus's article "As Educators Rush to Embrace, a Coterie of Skeptics Seeks to Be Heard." A cyber-sceptic, Dreyfus argues that "The risk-free anonymity of the Internet, he says, makes it a good medium for slander, innuendo, endless gossip, and ultimately, boredom. Without some way of telling the relevant from the irrelevant and the significant from the insignificant, everything becomes equally interesting and equally boring." I think this can be answered by pointing out that life online is as real in any meaningful sense as life offline. More...