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OK thats something. But thats still not much like what we have today. Its like Forster extrapolated from his era and imagined people in the future having more a
by codeulike 5y ago
OK thats something. But thats still not much like what we have today. Its like Forster extrapolated from his era and imagined people in the future having more aquaintances. But I don't 'know' any of the people I interact with online, or at least very few of them. Nonetheless meaningfull (and sometimes silly but entertaining) interactions occur.
- dTal 5y agoIt's difficult to capture in a single quote, but as the story progresses it is shown that society is basically structured around the creation and exchange of "ideas". It's not simply that people had more acquaintances - it's that the entirety of human existence has been reduced to swapping memes online, both one-to-one and one-to-many.