Ms. Myerson, there’s so much here that it’s hard to know what to respond to.

I’m a 55 year-old s/w engineer who majored in CS and substituted a structured Great Books program for the core curriculum in my school (so, kind of like a minor in liberal arts). I appreciate both the technical and the non-technical parts of the human experience.

I have watched tech “take over” my society, and I have mixed feelings about it. On the plus side, there are all kinds of cool new things we can do now, and an ocean of knowledge is at our fingertips. On the minus side, I think it is leading us to increasingly atomized experiences, to a point where shared experiences and values are more and more difficult to find, and indeed for many people only available online.

This, to me, is a major threat to our individual well-being, our culture, and even our ability to intelligently govern ourselves. In Clifford Stoll’s wonderful book, “Silicon Snake Oil”, he explores some of these things, detailing the ways in which the overenthusiasm for the Internet and overreliance on it are impoverishing us as human beings.

An article on you may find useful in your thoughts about the anti-gamergate stuff is:

They reference an excellent research paper going into great detail.