Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

Wired Potatoes

http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/07/24/rtr1037488.html

A common dystopian future vision displays the majority of the populace functioning as passive couch potatoes under the malign influence of TV. For a while, it did look like we were going down that particular slippery slope.

This article gives renewed hope that the InterNet represents not only a positive alternative to TV, but is also outgaining the latter in acceptance among young people, even though they have greater capacity for multimedia multitasking then their elders.