How many times have those among us, those who number among this new society of computer-dwellers, found ourselves wondering when, indeed if, this medium will begin to mature.
Even as we write, machines the likes of this are delivering billions of characters, millions of words, hundreds of thousands of thoughts, into similar systems. People un-numbered sit, expressing themselves as best they can on issues they would never bring up with those they know, who perhaps have never had an audience before. But the evolution of a process is slow. Like the Grolsch man says, 'it takes time to be right..'
In the meantime, this Game continues, becoming more and more sophisticated by the nanosecond. We have built the Tower of Babel, and while we're still metaphorically wandering within, looking for the upward ramp, the process has begun.
Now, if we could only get past the religious fundamentalism stage, it would be a partial release..