25.09.15 Is the Internet good for us?

Arye Kellman speaks to novelist, satirist and screenwriter as well as one of South Africa's funniest men on Twitter, Tom Eaton. He explains his process of writing, how he feels about certain issues and even accounts for some of the Tweets he has posted recently. More important than this, Tom speaks about his opinion on whether or not the Internet is good for us, he has a strong conviction that it is harming the natural state of human relationships, and that with great power comes great responsibility. Another important aspect that Tom emphasises is that Twitter and similar platforms are not the places to have arguments, he believes you cannot put forward a coherent argument in 140 characters and that the internet is just a lense that we use to view the reality of 2015, similar to the role that newspapers played in the 1940s.