# How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet  ## Metadata - Author: [[douglasadams.com]] - Full Title: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The Internet is changing our lives and becoming a major part of society. People are still learning about the Internet and its impact on communication and culture. As technology evolves, our understanding and usage of the Internet will also change. - URL: https://douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html?__readwiseLocation= ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs (and a couple of decades or so after that, as sheets of paper or grains of sand) and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I’m sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for ‘productivity.’ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jjhzz04fzrv8pgm6m7rm4zdf))