By way of follow-up on that last post, I think we tend to think of and talk about the impact of the increased connectivity wrought by the Internet -- again, for lack of a broader way of talking about it -- as a matter of superlatives: things are faster, easier, that sort of thing. Instead, what I'm thinking is that the real impact is more along the lines of looking at how we functioned maybe five years ago and shifting to the left about 15 degrees -- a change not of degree (despite the crappy image I just painted) but of entire nature. Again, rough thoughts that don't make much sense yet but I'm pretty sure there's something there. (By the way, right now it's so incredibly humid in DC that, combined with the heat from my laptop, I'm sweating just sitting on the couch.)
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