“As high-tech leaders persistently, almost desperately, call for more educated workers, the ‘info-tainment’ business that is rapidly absorbing the Internet and all other media makes well-informed citizens even more rare and unusual. The constant ‘dumbing-down’ and vulgarization of the culture industry, driven by mass marketing and profits, is clearly at odds with educational excellence, but few high-tech leaders can bring themselves to admit their role in this depressing decline.” – Los Angeles Times