It doesn't matter what people think when they're philosophizing alone; peer pressure will win out. Do you want to be the luddite left behind when all your frien

It doesn't matter what people think when they're philosophizing alone; peer pressure will win out. Do you want to be the luddite left behind when all your friends are zipping around the world on optical fibers, London to New Tokyo in 200 ms? Do you want to be the only delicate mortal in the room, where everyone else has a full mind backup on rsync.net? There's a lot of terrible stuff in today's technology world that no thinking person would accept, if they paused to make a deliberated choice. But no one has time to stop. You either go with the flow, and swallow your concerns, or you put massive friction between you and the rest of society. I think it will be the some going forwards: all the decisions will continue to be made collectively and blindly, and without realizing we're making great decisions until we've already made them.