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The sign of a field beginning to mature, in my opinion, is that distinctions and terms become clearly demarcated. At the beginning of any discipline, the details are hardly a point of focus. Instead, we see a “glob of stuff” as our effort is to understand what the entity is. As a discipline progresses, distinctions begin to emerge. And divisive or even polarizing discussions begin to emerge. As Sayre’s Law states: “In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue”. To that end, a nice compilation of books advocating optimistic and pessimistic views of the internet.