Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00069)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR<ramadoss@g...> wrote:
> Dear Paul:
> 
> I am an eternal optimist. I believe that we are still in the early 
stages 
> of the use of Internet and very hopeful of enormous changes to 
come which 
> will affect the society world-wide. Most of the population of 
today grew up 
> in pre-computer days. Today's youngsters are growing up in the 
Internet 
> culture and they are the ones who are going to spearhead changes 
in 
> communication and discourse in ways none of us could even imagine. 
So we 
> may have to patiently wait and hope.

Dear Doss,

Understood and agreed. I've been thinking that there might be an 
inverse relationship between quality and quantity in spiritual 
discussion online. That is, in the mid-90s only the vanguard of 
most-wired people had Internet access but now 10 years later it has 
increased tenfold (hundredfold?). With so many more participants 
the quality of discussion would be unlikely to remain what it was in 
the early days. However, the influx of masses is probably good for 
*them* although not for the overall quality of discussion of 
spiritual issues online.

Cheers,

Paul