It's a boon as far as I'm concerned. It is going to be a platform through which so many people are going to find out so many things that they never had access to before. It's just going to change everything, and I think for the better…because at least I see it with my own kids. They have access to so much more information. It astonishes me. I can't go to a library every time and they can't go to a library, but it's all available to them. -Mortimer Zuckerman

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Former President Bill Clinton was asked on NBC News whether he had an opinion on the Facebook movement. Clinton said, “What I'm worried about is that, for young people, who send an average of 80 text messages today on their telephones and live on the Internet, that it may make it harder for them now and for the rest of their lives to be present where they are…I was 10 years old before we had a television, so I grew up in a storytelling culture where you were supposed to be present where you are. That's what I worry about.”

John McLaughlin asks if the virtual world is a boon or a bane?