It is hardly possible to overstate the value ... of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar ... Such communication has always been ... one of the primary sources of progress.
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Monday, May 10
John Stuart Mill
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DavidAkin
on Mon 10 May 2004 01:31 AM EDT
Cass Sunstein
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 10 May 2004 01:29 AM EDT
Notes from Republic.com, (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001)
Sunstein writes: "For countless people, the Internet is producing a substantial decrease in unanticipated, unchosen interactions with others." (p. 23) He does not source this or prove this observation. I would tend not to believe this assertion. "...the most general constitutional ... more » |
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