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by bsirkia 4575 days ago
Great response to Franzen and Eggers article/novel, she articulated a lot of the feelings I had about their works.

In general, you can pick any innovation in history and find naysayers at the time:

“The automobile as a death dealing instrument was unanimously decided upon as the greatest present day menace to public safety.” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1920.

There were critics of the radio, telephones, television, the Internet, and there will continue to be critics of every new innovation. By learning about it and embracing it, Ms. Waters takes the right approach to coding and technology.