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> That stupid shit you said in some obscure forum when you were a teenager What's the first presidential election going to be like when the first candidate who
by gosub100 2y ago
> That stupid shit you said in some obscure forum when you were a teenager
What's the first presidential election going to be like when the first candidate who was old enough to have a Facebook or myspace runs for election? Each opponent will do anything they can do disparage the 35+ year olds character with the words he uttered as a teenager.
I think one of the unintentional consequences of this newspaper move will be that a great deal of our history will be lost. When I was a kid, the libraries touted how cool it was to peruse old stories in the local paper on microfiche. Now that info is online for $8 per article.
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- azeirah 2y agoIf you take a McLuhanistic perspective on the internet, then the internet is the nervous system of the human world. It's a medium through which information flows at unprecedented speeds (with major consequences worldwide). The nervous system is still new, and with new nervous system growth come weird sensations (pain, tingles, false alarms, weird flashes of joy). It needs to adapt for a few more centuries. Most of the things said on the internet are shared to be forgotten seconds later; Information has a half-life. And in a fast medium? That half life can be seconds or minutes. It doesn't matter too much.