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However, such memetic behavior such as fads, echo chambers, and meme outbreaks predates the internet and even modern technology. So, according to your logic, it
by zpallin 8y ago
However, such memetic behavior such as fads, echo chambers, and meme outbreaks predates the internet and even modern technology. So, according to your logic, it would seem we have always been the Borg.
- api 8y agoThe quantitative difference in spreading velocity and general bandwidth is so large it becomes qualitative and looks a lot like a phase change. We burned stuff long before modern steam turbines and internal combustion engines...
- matt_kantor 8y agoThe same sort of thing could have been said (and was) when the telephone and printing press were invented, to pick just two examples.
- api 8y agoIt's been an ongoing process but there can be thresholds where phase shifts occur. We are experiencing an exponential rise in connectivity.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAnd (possibly replacing telephone with telegraph and radio) those events pretty much turned the civilization upside down. They were transformative. So was the Internet. Now we have another qualitative step - never before people were actually connected 24/7, with constant Internet activations coming to our pocket.