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0 Comments | USA TODAY, February, 2005 | by Kevin Maney

Back in high school in the late 1970s, there was this one English teacher -- a guy with long hair -- who could find ways to discuss the existential nature of the human soul as found in an Archie comic book or the never-ending struggle between ego and id as depicted in an Art Buchwald column.

He'd apparently had a very good time in the '60s.

Anyway, you can do this with the Internet: Take what might be frivolous pop culture moments and thrash out something deep about the transformative power of the Net, the technology-driven march of globalization and the delicate balance between humanity and Moore's Law.

This usually works better after the third glass of zinfandel.

But with the help of some tech-industry experts, we'll give it a try here on a sober...