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dredmorbius makes a good point, but if you change always to recently, and time to free time, i think you are right. Brave New World was published in 1932 after
by ahartman00 9y ago
dredmorbius makes a good point, but if you change always to recently, and time to free time, i think you are right.
Brave New World was published in 1932 after all. "As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Comparisons_with_George_Orwell.27s_Nineteen_Eighty-Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Comparisons_wi...
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/
relevant: "The pace of modern life" https://xkcd.com/1227/ https://xkcd.com/1227/