Last night someone put on a history documentary about Oliver Cromwell's invasions of Ireland. They showed that the invention of the printing press around that t

Last night someone put on a history documentary about Oliver Cromwell's invasions of Ireland. They showed that the invention of the printing press around that time led to all the news of the Irish rebellion having a further reach inside of England. Oliver Cromwell channeled that nationalism into his own political gains and caused a wake of destruction through Ireland. It's exactly the same phenomenon as we see now with social media. This is the natural cycle of human innovation in communication. I want these interfaces to happen despite the growing pains we will have. Besides, it doesn't matter what we want. They will happen either way. Think about it in terms of larger time scales and the growing pains of new technology seems like a more worthwhile cost. I know it's dismissive to label real human suffering and death as growing pains, but this stuff is inevitable, the results are predictable, and in a large enough timescale, the technology will yield immense fruit.