There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy cheerful rhetoric to them but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans human nature and the human future.
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I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.