The Internet Will Kill You
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates its 21st birthday, we have to accept the facts that our little baby the internet (AKA "the internets" or "a system of tubes") is all grown up and walking now – why, in fact it's a junior in college.You'd think that all the stress and trouble of its feral childhood could be put behind us now. After all, your grandmother is on Facebook and your dad tweets for the local council and your mom has reached the alchemist level on Worlds of Warcraft by employing a fleet of poorly paid Chinese students who mine virtual gold in their spare time.
And yet we are no closer to normalcy. In a world where Justin Bieber is possible, anything can go wrong. We even have the experts throwing up their hands in despair or shamefacedly stubbing their toes in the dirt and muttered, "I just don’t know." The Tools for Change conference this week latched onto literate member of the Twitterati, Margaret Atwood, to talk about her experiences as an author in the digital age.
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However, Rawl Withers DOES KNOW. Or so I firmly hope.
Has there been a period, at least since the initial issue of NON-THREATENING BOYS, when Justin Bieber wasn't possible?
And for goodness' sake, don't break any limbs at all running from one gig to another here...
HA HA HA -- well, there is the aspect of Bieber's jump from YouTube to mainstream which is at least new. He just seems so unbearably fetal.
Rawl Withers must know the score for sure. He knicked it from Alan Moore!
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