[sundarurfriend]

Could someone translate that into ordinary English? It's hard to get even a feel for the core idea here.

[rgbrenner]

The one line version is: the internet creates isolation (by removing our need to leave the home, even for work) and therefore loneliness. It's anti-computers (called home terminals in the article) because it disturbs the home as a refuge from work--a place for leisure (in front of a TV-- not the work-like home terminals).

Keep in mind, this is when most people were still not connected (or even had a computer), there were maybe 20,000 websites worldwide.

So this is a pro-status-quo position... arguing against the change that was beginning to occur from computers becoming widely available.

I think it's hard to read because it's a translation of this: https://www.mediamatic.net/en/media/inline/2016/12/14/8_2_am...

[throwanem]

Interesting prefigure of Tinder in there, too, I thought.

[ravenstine]

I think the point is that technology is pulling us apart, not bringing us closer, and that's actually not a bad thing? I'm honestly unsure if there's a more profound point being made, and it definitely comes off as the Postmodern Essay Generator trained on a different bag of words.