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I hope you're right, but this is an extremely optimistic view that does not have much historical precedent.
by jxf 6y ago
I hope you're right, but this is an extremely optimistic view that does not have much historical precedent.
- d883kd8 6y agoIt's how things went down with aol
- gagege 6y agoLooking at all of history, I'm very optimistic. Going way back to Cuneiform and the printing press, and the internet itself, they all point to a general principle of the breaking up of monolithic information sources over time. It might take a while, but it'll happen with the internet too.
- DSingularity 6y agoSad that the internet is now considered a “monolithic information source”. But yay for unicorns I guess.
- neverspecial 6y agoWhat you describe in the digital age will be an illusion of freedom. Delivery of the bits will still be locked down tighter than ever. Delivery allows filtering. The future is very bleak.