Hooked On The Net

Greg Beato rehashes the internet addiction debate:

On a pound-for-pound basis, the average World
Warcraft junkie undoubtedly represents a much less destructivesocial force than the average meth head. But it's not extremeanecdotes that make the specter of Internet addiction sothreatening; it's the fact that Internet overuse has the potentialto scale in a way that few other addictions do. Even if Steve Jobsdesigned a really cool-looking syringe and started distributingfree heroin on street...