Bridging America’s Divide - Can the Internet Help?

When I was at Netscape during the early days of the Internet, most of us in the tech world shared a common idealized vision of the future:

When we are all connected online across the globe and have access to so much information, we will know more and better tolerate and understand each other.

In many ways we achieved that goal. Gloriously.

But not in American politics - at least not today.

Watch the news for 5 minutes. Listen to the candidates attack each other and belittle anyone who...