But what a strange world, though. I mean, when I was growing up, *I* didn’t have a laptop. Or a computer of any sort in my house. Or access to one at school, except on rare occasions.

I guess I’m the last generation to say this.

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My personal (untested, obviously) theory is that the information age has led to the decrease in wars that was noted in this blog; it’s hard to kill or torture people with whom you are exchanging ideas on the internet. Well, hard for sane people, anyways.

What stability might come to Africa with pervasive laptops and networks? Information is the enemy of ignorance, ignorance is the gateway to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.