1) Privacy / surveillance. There's a lot of things that govt and corporations don't really need to know about you, but now they do.
2) Attention. The double edged sword of easy information is that digital junk food is also easier to get. You can read Feynman lectures or catch up with the Kardashians, up to you.
3) The idiots can find each other. There's no village idiot anymore, they've gone global.
Connecting the mentally ill and intellectually disabled and feeding them enraging misinformation in order to sell the maximal amount of advertising is not a business model that history is going to look kindly on.
2) Attention. The double edged sword of easy information is that digital junk food is also easier to get. You can read Feynman lectures or catch up with the Kardashians, up to you.
3) The idiots can find each other. There's no village idiot anymore, they've gone global.