The pen can write poetry or a death sentence.

Interesting piece at Short Stack about the new book eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World.

I like this argument that obsolete technology can be just as “dangerous” as the new vanguard.

“After the widespread adoption of online communication in the 1990’s, it did not take long before the dangers of sexually explicit material and personal indiscretion became the ideological bogeymen of the Internet. Such polar extremes are not especially useful because they tend to conflate information technologies with their social uses. The telephone can be used to reach a loved one, or to call in a bomb threat. The pen can write poetry or a death sentence.”

Short Stack - (washingtonpost.com)