I'm still, at heart, both a coward and a pessimist.
Making tentative steps towards implementing an IndieWeb social reader and so reading up what other people have done and how they are using these ideas.
[S]o many people in the world today lack the opportunity, knowledge and skill to provide even the most basic perquisites of daily life, and I believe this is a silent pathology that eats at contemporary society.
Yup.
I'm pretty sure nothing much has changed in the intervening 28 years.
Thomas PM Barnett seems to be building a combination personal search engine and Zettelkasten called InfoSquirrel and plans to sell it as a service. I doubt I will ever be able to afford it, but it does look interesting and I certainly wish him well.
Always readable.