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Indeed! We also tend to discount the unintended consequences. For instance, the printing press was probably a major catalyst in sparking witch hunts, which perh
by larsiusprime 9y ago
Indeed! We also tend to discount the unintended consequences. For instance, the printing press was probably a major catalyst in sparking witch hunts, which perhaps has some lessons for modern day social media:
https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept09/2009/10/31/unintended-consequences/ https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept09/2009/10/31/unintended-con...
- dalbasal 9y agoYep. Though specifically to printing, I was taught in school about the printing press leading to the protestant reformation and it's consequences. Witch hunts might be considered a part of that. The same thing might be happening right now. It's widely accepted that online media revolutionized the political landscape. In Europe and the states we saw centrist parties lose control of the agenda, and the empowerment of fringier politics. Trump, LePenn, alt-right, Brexit, etc. In the middle east we saw a bigger earlier impact: the arab spring protests are widely credited to online media. This is much more controversial, but I think the ISIS family of religious phenomenon (and many less headline grabbing ones) has a Luther-Gutenberg relationship with online media.