I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.