> No one in their right mind believes that you can accomplish widespread, high speed communication via "talking to people IRL" like you can with the internet.

> No one in their right mind believes that you can accomplish widespread, high speed communication via "talking to people IRL" like you can with the internet. Nobody claimed that. I'm not sure whether this sort of comms is meaningful at all or whether "staying informed" is just the dopamine thing in effect. > Going back to the stone age Its actually 20 years ago. That's less than the median age.