I bet he's right in a lot of cases. I think the difference would be that back then you had actual humans making every decision and everything was local so the

I bet he's right in a lot of cases. I think the difference would be that back then you had actual humans making every decision and everything was local so the social and cultural expectations from everyone involved would have been more predictable. Plus, I imagine everyone made more effort to be civil when interacting because everything was face-to-face.