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When CS Lewis Predicted the Internet, It Was Hell

I've posted some thoughts on my personal blog today about the fractures in our culture, the promise and pitfalls of social media and the prophecies of CS Lewis.  

"Where the internet draws us together, I am grateful. But is the web is benign–simply a tool without bias? I'm not convinced. What I see looks more like a spider's web, where you and I sit trapped in a cycle of interactions that are not healthy, but easy. 
The internet is looking a lot like CS Lewis 'Grey Town' – a singular vision of hell he lays out in his book The Great Divorce." 

Read the rest at http://www.davevonbieker.com/blog/2016/7/27/when-cs-lewis-predicted-the-internet-it-was-hell


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