This caught my eye in Cory Doctorow's acceptance for an award for Pirate Cinema.
Every single problem everyone has from now on will involve the Internet, because the Internet will be woven into every facet of our lives.
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/04/science-fiction-award-season.html
Which resonated with something else I read today. Poe's Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law (On the internet) without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.
I have a variation of that. Everything I've seen or heard on the internet in the past few years looks like, and is indistinguishable from, ironic sarcasm. But that's just me!
There are problems we've got that have little or nothing to do with the Internet, and they can absolutely slay us.