from William Russel Mead:
It turns out that humanity did to the info-world what we did to the Garden of Eden: we lost paradise because of the choices we made. Those who thought that the rise of the digital world would transform human nature missed the boat. Human nature made the digital world in its image. The newest realm of human creativity has demonstrated the oldest truths about who we are: divinely gifted and fatally flawed.
The information revolution is already turning out to be a much more powerful driver of change than the industrial revolution was, and the rise of the internet and the digital economy has sped things up even more. Very far reaching changes in the human condition seem possible in this new age but, so far, there doesn’t seem to be a software patch for Original Sin.
Read the whole article “Virtual War” on his “Via Meadia” blog.