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By that definition Mark was not socially isolated, since he had earth communication. He was even effectively live twitch streaming his life.
by NikolaeVarius 5y ago
By that definition Mark was not socially isolated, since he had earth communication. He was even effectively live twitch streaming his life.
- hervature 5y agoAre you really equivocating being on a planet with high latency and low bandwidth download and essentially zero upload to being inside with your family/pets/Slack/email/iDevice? You are again totally missing the point that you were not isolated from other people for a year.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoYep. I didn't talk to anyone for months. Was on solo backpacking trip. It was great. Also the initial point was about total isolation, he was not totally isolated, he had better bandwidth and latency than 1800s mail.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoThe entire latter half of the book he is completely isolated and cannot receive communications from Earth. He could send messages via Morse code, but that was it.
- Jtsummers 5y agoMark had no communication for some extended period at the start of the novel. And it wasn't even voluntary isolation (like you might have here on Earth assuming you're not in prison or stuck on a remote island) where he opts not to use the communication tools. He flat out didn't have access to it and was absolutely isolated in a way that 99.99999% of modern humans have not experienced.