With the 21st century looming on the horizon, digitalization and the Internet, the new mass medium, were welcomed with wide-ranging promises of salvation. In 1996, Peter Glaser treated his readers to 24 Hours in the 21st Century, and determined that: “Humankind is starting to take common control of its intelligence and the broad scope of the human mind.” Now, some two decades later, the digital future has fallen into disrepute thanks to misappropriation of data, manipulation of public opinion and …