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And people around you had relevance. Your librarian was relevant as a gatekeeper of information. Now we are isolated and even if we do get the best informatio
by danschumann 7y ago
And people around you had relevance. Your librarian was relevant as a gatekeeper of information. Now we are isolated and even if we do get the best information, we are somehow not satisfied. People are becoming dumber as information is becoming more available, a paradox.
Meanwhile, we are centralizing these institutions and therefore power brokers are being more disparate from the powerless, using the technologies that were supposed to give voices to the masses. Now the masses can enforce you to only speak in lock step with them.
- shantly 7y agoVonnegut wrote about how various technologies have removed the community value of moderate talents by enabling the best of the best to reach everyone with ease, all the time, any time. Being an OK musician, for instance, has gone from having pretty good social value and maybe even non-negligible economic value, to very little. That effect has broadened to new areas and increased in degree, with the rise of ubiquitous mobile Internet.