communication technology beneficial?

"What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?"
-- Roger Waters (1988)

myth vs. truth

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
-- John F. Kennedy (1962)