Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 02, 2023

At least the phones don’t destroy your liver — yet.

If all information is instantly available, how come cell phone zombies are among the most ignorant people on the planet?

Booze can be like the internet. One of only differences is that the internet does not make Danny Donkey happy.

all knowledge and no wisdom…

The worst development is that sites like Snopes and Politifact are grossly underused.

I find that now a search on the internet returns mostly commercially driven content.

There’s a reason for that!

Who could have imagined that there would be a time when nearly everybody carried around a device in their pocket that gives them instant access to nearly all human knowledge, and they use that people would use these devices primarily to watch cute cat videos.

The "Golden Age S. F. writers " Asimov , Heinlein , Niven , etc. Foresaw all if not most of this chaos with the Internet and social media so I am not really surprised by all this cr@p !

I refuse to be nasty so….no comment

Without the FUN?? Have you NOT heard of Candy Crush???

There’s a prophecy in the Bible about this: “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Easy for you to say. Rats only have five years to live.

so true

The problem being that not all “information” is true and helpful. Misinformation, disinformation, falsehoods and conspiracy theories can be very destructive, evil, hurtful and dangerous.

Misused and abused!

All the wrong information is instantly available.

Information is cheap. Knowledge is rare. It is important never to mistake the former for the latter.

Pandora’s box

Also without the hangover.

Isn’t that the way A Tale of Two Cities starts?

Info will reach 175 zettabytes by 2025; who will read all that?

Indeed.

Thanks to all information being instantly available,I can recite the list of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husbands by heart

He’s actually correct. In 1994 to maybe mid-2005, it was wonderful (plus being able to buy stuff that you couldn’t find anywhere else).Then Facebook and it’s reprehensible spawn arrived and everything went in the opposite direction. (Well, maybe – I can still buy stuff that I can’t find anywhere else…)

Wasn’t wanting to have more knowledge (to be all-knowing like God) the original sin?

The greatest development of our age is the sewage system.

All through this strip, Rat is right. But now Pig has become one of the Walking Dead, the phone-addict zombies….

Aliens gave this tech to the world!!! They knew it would destroy humanity!!! AHHHHHH!!!