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The visionary David Gelernter, one of the smartest people on the planet re: the Internet, says “it’s time to start taking the Internet seriously.” These excerpts can’t begin to do justice to the ideas in his short essay, but they’ll give you a taste. For example: 27. Returning to our fundamental riddle: if this is…

When you have enough 12 year old boys sexually active in your society that you can economically justify the manufacture of training-wheel condoms for li’l playas, you have problems far deeper than can be solved by contraceptive technology. But it’s just like us to attempt a technological fix for a problem like this.

Reader Indy raises an interesting question: Have you ever considered the impact of Internet discourse on potential loss of trust in Americans in each other? Until I started reading messages boards ten years ago, I didn’t realize how readily some of my fellow Americans demonized and seemingly hated each other. Sure, I knew people had…

Beautiful. If you haven’t already, read the amazing Esquire profile of Ebert and his life with cancer, and without his speaking voice. He’s something else. UPDATE: Wow! A reader in Washington e-mailed a link to Will Leitch’s moving piece about how Ebert helped him get started in his writing career, how he betrayed and insulted…
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