Author Stephen Fry on Social Media (Hint: He Likes It)

British author, actor, comedian, television presenter and film director Stephen Fry isn’t nearly as worried as Miley Cyrus is that social media and the Internet are turning us into passive idiots.

Far from it, Fry says in this fascinating video interview (below) in which he puts such concerns in historical perspective and points out the tremendous advantages of modern communications technology. Fry, by the way, has more than 920,000 followers of his Twitter account and already has been “listed” nearly 5,000 times.

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