~ Sure, there will be less crime/mayhem if everybody's inside playing video games, is that healthy? There's been a few dystopias written about groups of people who spend their entire lives hooked up to virtual reality, never seeing the real world. Is that really bad?
~ That guy is claiming that it's much more difficult for people to regulate themselves in a large scale conversation, and it sounded like he was implying individuals, but it's probably just about the increasing statistical probability of having that one jerk who can ruin an area by him/herself.
~ The internet as a social experiment is intriguing. Sure, the instant world-wide connectivity is amazing, but observing the social dynamic that is created in the huge number of sites could be revealing.
~ The small advances, little changes that are available to everybody have a way of causing social changes that no one expects. The big advances are awesome, but don't change an individuals daily life.
~ Predicting the effects of technology before understanding what it's actually able to do and how quickly potentially creates a divide politically that people in the future who know what can be done with the technology will find silly.
~ The fact that claims made on the internet are so difficult to verify probably is the worst part about comments online. Any claim can be made, supported, and accepted, and that has a lot of potential for damage.
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