Both optimists and pessimists were right. The Internet is the most powerful tool we have to spread knowledge, but it's also the most powerful one to spread bullshit. If you hang around smart people you'll get positive effects from the internet, if you are an idiot or hang around idiots, you'll get crap. Author seems to be of the second kind.
Yeah... to me this is like complaining that the printing press was a bad idea because it was once only used to publish scholarship and now it's mostly coffee table books and pulp fiction.
