“If television’s a babysitter, the Internet’s a drunk librarian who won’t shut up” - Dorothy Gambrill, Cat and Girl, 2005
As a youth I lived in a strict house, where television viewing was restricted to one-half hour per day (or a full hour for PBS programs). The reasoning was simple: television makes people stupid, whether by its predictably banal content, endless emissions of crass noise, inducing of lethargy, or exposure to cathode rays. Yet there....