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TBH internetization of reality is still very much an ongoing process, likely to expand much further in the future. At least if we want to extrapolate, there mig
by formerentourage 8y ago
TBH internetization of reality is still very much an ongoing process, likely to expand much further in the future. At least if we want to extrapolate, there might be a backlash, who knows (I can imagine internet gaining a boring, authoritarian image like television around the turn of milennium). "Big" political events had an important online aspect in recent years. New cultural phenomena, art genres etc. emerge here.
I have to admit, imagining nuking the entire internet is funny intellectually. It would leave us with a low connectivity, low-res "slow" version of history, something more resembling "long 1990s" or what a stubborn pre-milennial person may still be experiencing now. Would it be warped beyond recognition? Probably not, not yet. You could still reconstruct Western societies in broad strokes. But I think the cultural history at least would suffer significantly.