My 14-year-old son just sent me this link to what is supposed to be a leaked video of Microsoft’s new multimedia device, something called the Origami project. (It looks pretty cool.) The 5-minute video tells a story, presents a very specific vision, about what life is all about (as does most advertising). The questions Crunchy Cons are posing are not about theocracy, or reaction, or nostalgia, but whether we can retain our humanity in this new era. We all recognize that a retrieval of traditional values for tomorrow’s world will look very different than anything that’s come before. Freedom is the new reality. But the good society will have to be fought for. We can’t passively rely on whatever technology or economics delivers to us.
