California supremacist. Climber. English prof. Urbit: pasmul-hopnel. Author of "Excavating the Memory Palace" and "The Last Mixtape." Blog at link below.
When it comes to tech revolutions, humans don't get to separate the wheat from the chaff. You don't get nuclear energy without a Cold War, you don't get mass literacy without some wars of religion, you don't get the internet without mass porn addiction.