We know what we used to have, who we used to be, and what our values were. Those of us who remember the world and life before the Internet are a vital resource. Like the Industrial Revolution and other great eras of societal change, there is a brief moment of opportunity, a window, when it becomes clear where society might be heading-and there is still memory of what is being left behind. In the prologue to this book, I compared this moment in time to the Enlightenment, hundreds of years ago, when there were changes of great magnitude in human knowledge, ability, awareness, and technology. We desperately need some balance in an era of hell-bent cyber-utopianism. But what is new is not always good-and technology does not always mean progress. “ We are living through an exciting moment in history, when so much about life on earth is being transformed. Mary Aiken book, The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online)
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