The big challenge when an epoch-changing technology comes along is to find the right balance. Early industrial London was filled with poor factory workers who drowned their sorrows in cheap gin because they couldn't handle the new stresses of industrial life. It took us a while to create new structures like public health & education and child labour laws to counter the effects of rampant industrialism. We're still in the early stages of the Internet era but we only have industrial tools to address our issues. I think that we'll see a lot more craziness before we seriously address how to live with most of us being interconnected and having all this information at our fingertips.

Thanks for your first comment here, Mike.