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I'm from that period, a programmer even, but not clued in enough to know of people like Jenni (I did meet Captain Crunch once however). The thing is that it's

I'm from that period, a programmer even, but not clued in enough to know of people like Jenni (I did meet Captain Crunch once however). The thing is that it's hard to see someone like this fundamentally changing the world. Not everything is inevitable but live-stream everything seems inevitable. Basically, breaking all barrier to knowledge of others seems inevitable and by that token, one level of invasiveness is going to replace another as the first level is forgotten (except by lagging consumers of whatever sort).

HeyLaughingBoy 7y ago
That something is inevitable doesn't mean it's not life-changing. A coast-to-coast road network was inevitable once the automobile was a "thing" but you can hardly claim that it wasn't life changing.
dredmorbius 7y ago
I'd met Draper myself. Quite the character. Almost a phreak .... I disagree that live-streaming everything is inevitable, in the sense that everyone will do it, under their legal or everyday identity, and a point of my upstream comment was that it seems more a phase, often (though not always) associated with youth, that people go through. In the case of Ringley, she is "almost wholly absent from the Internet now" (2016), and in 2007: "I really am enjoying my privacy now. I don't have a web page; I don't have a MySpace page. It's a completely different feeling, and I think I'm enjoying it." As with much else that mainstream media seems to treat as generational, the truth seems to be rather more that many behaviours tend to follow individual's life-cycles, with a few exceptions. Individual mental health can also play a role, and I believe Ringley and/or her partner had issues with depression or other conditions as well. (Conditions themselves which appear to be far more widespread among contemporary youth than those of decades past, an exception to the rule I'd just given above, but comparable to, say, the "lost generation" following WWI in Europe.)

HeyLaughingBoy 7y ago

That something is inevitable doesn't mean it's not life-changing. A coast-to-coast road network was inevitable once the automobile was a "thing" but you can hardly claim that it wasn't life changing.

dredmorbius 7y ago

I'd met Draper myself. Quite the character. Almost a phreak .... I disagree that live-streaming everything is inevitable, in the sense that everyone will do it, under their legal or everyday identity, and a point of my upstream comment was that it seems more a phase, often (though not always) associated with youth, that people go through. In the case of Ringley, she is "almost wholly absent from the Internet now" (2016), and in 2007: "I really am enjoying my privacy now. I don't have a web page; I don't have a MySpace page. It's a completely different feeling, and I think I'm enjoying it." As with much else that mainstream media seems to treat as generational, the truth seems to be rather more that many behaviours tend to follow individual's life-cycles, with a few exceptions. Individual mental health can also play a role, and I believe Ringley and/or her partner had issues with depression or other conditions as well. (Conditions themselves which appear to be far more widespread among contemporary youth than those of decades past, an exception to the rule I'd just given above, but comparable to, say, the "lost generation" following WWI in Europe.)