David Byrne on the Internet Antichrist

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David Byrne Journal: 10.24.09: Internet Antichrist

“The Internet, the World Wide Web, as much of a boon as it has been, has left an awful lot of wreckage in its wake, beyond just the elimination of those formats we thought of as eternal and the industries that produced and delivered them. Interconnectivity has facilitated the loss of privacy of many of the world’s citizens. We’ve been liberated and captured at the same time.”

“All of which led me back to wondering — how did this get started?”