[Technology] is not the friend of entrenched tyranny. Connected to which, it would be nice if the technologies of the future were not given babyish names. Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc., have come to be crucial and historically consequential tools, and yet to refer to them is to talk baby talk. In the future could inventors please keep the weight and dignity of history in mind?
Saturday, June 20, 2009
An observation by Peggy Noonan
At this point, maybe my favorite conservative commentator is David Letterman Peggy Noonan. In today’s op-ed piece in the WSJ, Ms. Noonan is holding forth on the dissent in Iran and how it was much helped along by technology in general and social networking technology in particular. Anyway, there are many thoughtful points in the article, but this is what I'd like to point out:
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