I certainly don't have a recipe to suggest. I suppose there's one school of thought that would say we need to find the funding, legislation, programs and technologies to make access to the Internet a global reality, as pervasive as can be. There's another school of thought that would say the complexity and frailty of a lifestyle that depends on the Internet is too distant from how humans can or should live sustainably, and so we should seek to simplify our lives accordingly, to the point where those without Internet access do not experience any inherent disadvantage at all (in the eyes of our global economy and high-tech society).

I suppose I fall somewhere in between - advocating for reasonable measures to make the Internet available to those who would be able to use it as a tool in bettering their lives, while also pursuing a cultural and technological shift that makes the use of the Internet a sustainable compliment to real human connection, instead of a replacement for it that keeps growing for growth's sake.

But I'll have to get back to you on the specifics of what that means for those of us working in the tech industry. Thanks for posing a necessary question.