Caveat emptier: This post was drafted with help from an AI assistant (Perplexity)— but ideated and edited extensively by the human, Bill Acton.
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“We Shall Not Surrender (Our Digital Lives)”
We stand today upon the shores of a new sea— a vast, electric ocean of wires, signals, and screens. Never in the field of human communication has so much of our life been carried by so many, through so few devices.
Let us then resolve:
I. We shall fight for our attention. We shall not yield it cheaply to every frivolous distraction and trivial amusement.
II. We shall defend our good name. In this realm where rumor travels faster than light, we shall speak with care and stand by our words, knowing that a reputation, once sunk, is not easily raised again.
III. We shall be prudent in our agreements.
We shall not bind ourselves by blind consent to terms we have never bothered to read. We shall rather pause, examine, and, if necessary, refuse
IV. We shall protect the vulnerable— the young, the unwary, the lonely—
from the shadows that haunt this digital landscape: the swindler, the bully, the predator, who hides behind the mask of anonymity.
V. We shall use these powerful tools not for deceit, exploitation, or surrender to idle impulse, but for truth, for work, for human fellowship, and for the common good.
If we do these things, faithfully and unflinchingly, then even in this new domain we shall remain free; and we shall say to our children:
“Into this world of wires and waves we were thrust, but we did not lose ourselves in it.”
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