> The internet, in all of its forms, simply increases awareness of what's going on around I think this gets overlooked too much by people in tech sociological

> The internet, in all of its forms, simply increases awareness of what's going on around I think this gets overlooked too much by people in tech sociological bubble. The shape of the world is at any point in time a function of (1) the various frictions to information flow that are present, and (2) exploitation of the same by the powerful. The shape of the pre-information-age world in particular contained within it latent sources of conflict and instability (examples abound, I won't specify here) that could only be maintained by keeping some people voiceless and others in the dark. What we're witnessing now is a tumultuous transition period as we reach a new equilibrium. Two of the forces that will determine the shape of that new equilibrium: (1) People acting in their interests based on new information and (2) new restrictions on information transmission better adapted to the evolving state of technology.