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As technology gets better, the world gets smaller. In the end Earth will be as big as a small village: everybody will know everybody.
by GoToRO 10y ago
As technology gets better, the world gets smaller. In the end Earth will be as big as a small village: everybody will know everybody.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoThis is a disaster, because the brutal conformism of villages is the reason they lag behind cities where freaks are allowed to exist in anonymity.
- GoToRO 10y agoWell... 1. At least it is a disaster that we experienced before. 2. At some point conformism will mean "you have to be like everybody else: unique".
- pixl97 10y agoOh, you want to challenge the status quo. Burn him at the stake. Just because we did something in the past, doesn't mean we should start doing it again in the future.
- GoToRO 10y agoI don't propose to do it again in the future. I think it will come anyway no matter what.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoYou are all individuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ
- dredmorbius 10y agoA village isn't a matter simply of distance, but of scale. A small town with a few thousand people who might interact or incidentally observe one another on any given day is worlds apart from an entire planet of billions of people any one of whom might, without the target being aware of it, stalk any one, or billions, of other people. Or worse: sift through zottabytes of data at some unspecified future date, to generate some convenient narrative. Or worse yet: completely fabricate, do a level of perfection beyond any detection, evidence to fit any desired narrative.