“The dream of the internet, Bruce Sterling once said, had been that you would ‘upload yourself into a computer and have this rapture of the nerds. It was a powerful fantasy of escaping the unbearable pressures of being human. But you find that when you escape one of these things you generally bring all your baggage with you.’ It was worse than that, actually: The Internet accelerated a lot of the pressures of being human.”
Keith Gessen, “Dystopia”
