The internet is the largest place in the world. It is so densely packed and tightly interconnected that it should be thought of as a city not a country.
Over a billion webpages, billions of web searches performed per day, billions of emails. Staggering size and activity. And yet you can see virtually all of it with a few clicks on Google and go there in a second, and talk to all of it via email. So I don't think it can be thoguht of as a parallel or virtual world: it is a city. And a city like Hong Kong not like Houston. Piled high, packed tight, seething and stinking.
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but something did. Perhaps it was the sheer scope of the concept, the depth of the imagination, and the grandeur of the images that expanded my mind so.
taught me to care
but it was worth it to understand quality.
shaped my middle-age politics.
. It also made me laugh a lot.
but especially 
and 
, which I re-read occasionally with renewed pleasure.