“We mustn’t be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology. This has happened again and again in history. [S]uddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didn’t foresee and doing all sorts of things they didn’t really want to do.”
It might be too easy to look at social media and the Internet in general, read what’s said here by Aldous Huxley, and then say, “Yup. That totalitarian state where we’re all happy to be there is just around the corner. Or it’s here already.”
We’re not quite there yet.
There are still many, many people out there who have that awareness of the booby traps, as Huxley says, and can separate the fact from the fiction. And I think it’s hard to say there are fewer such people now than in the past.
We tend to fear the times we live in. Caution and hope, not fear, should rule the day.
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