Like rapidly moving creeks that swell in the relentless California winter rains -- flooding the valleys, uprooting established vegetation, destroying basement-stored family archives, yet leaving a residue of fresh green meadows, when the rains cease in the spring -- the Internet seems always in destructive/creative flux. Its innovative, uncontrolled growth sometimes alters or destroys the original communities it created, while at the same time, it nurtures new ones on its expanding banks
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