Same shit, different medium

The internet changes nothing, argues Marshall Poe, whose ambitious new book, A History of Communications, has just been published: We knew the revolution wouldn't be televised, but many of us really hoped it might be on the Internet. Now we know these hopes were false. There was no Internet Revolution and there will be no Internet Revolution. We will stumble on in more or less exactly the way we did before massive computer networks infiltrated our daily lives ... Before the Web we were already used to sitting in front of electronic boxes for hour upon hour. The boxes have...