The Hope in Our Developing Digital Dystopia

Things are bad, but it's going to be okay.

I am not, by nature, a very trusting, optimistic person, especially when it comes to the social internet matters about which I write here. I am a pretty skeptical person and I don’t build trust of others easily, which can unfortunately lead me to be sinfully cynical.

However, even setting my skepticism and cynicism aside, the last couple of years in the …