[ArsTechnica] The noosphere in 1996: when the Internet was Utopia

But utopians everywhere take note. If there’s a lesson to be learned from the last two hundred years, it’s that while communication devices will invariably magnify us to the latest degree, they won’t fix us. We’ve got to fix ourselves. We’re the ultimate glitch. And if there’s no code or universal workaround for us so far, there’s always hope.