An unfortunate choice of words? Commenting on whether or not networked communication isolates us, Mark Dery said:

[T]here’s also an upside to sociological clustering, at least online. In the 1950s, if you had the hapless happenstance of being born gay in Oklahoma, you might have spent many a lonely night biting your pillow and cursing the heavens for making you the only gay on earth. Now any 18-year-old with a modem is just a click away from a universe of fellow travelers, and to me, that’s a good thing.

Emphasis mine. I thought it was funny.

Okay, so there’s nothing more to this post, really. Even the interview (a round table with rockstars Tim O’Reilly, Malcolm Gladwell, Clay Shirky, Mark Dery, Esther Dyson, David Brooks, and Moby) was lame. I assume they were speaking down to/edited down for the Time readership.

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