That is so scary. Imagine the future when books and newspapers are gone and all we have to rely on is Alpha, now owned by the Murdoch conglomerate and an ultra fundamentalist consortium composed of you-name-it, the scariest one you can think of.
Actually I think a book on that subject has already been written--a number of times.
Take Alpha together with the options to manipulate documentary fiilms and ohmagod. Time to re-read Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale, and what was that novel by Ira Levin where vital literature was preserved only by people who had learned big chunks by heart. Well, time to re-read the whole dystopian genre. I get depressed just thinking about how depressed I will be when I have done that.
Will everybody please stop watching American Idol and subscribe to a real newspaper.
(I can't help it, I was born with a soapbox attached to my feet.)
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