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You just listed "inventions" that emerged across a 6,000 year timeframe.
by estearum 1mo ago
You just listed "inventions" that emerged across a 6,000 year timeframe.
- smokel 1mo agoFor all we know social media will emerge across another 6,000 year timeframe. I think we're going in circles :)
- flufluflufluffy 1mo agoThe point is that radio, then television, then internet, then smartphones, then AI, each one of which is as impactful on the world as the examples you gave, emerged within a couple hundred years ago years, rather than a couple thousand (and the last few within a couple decades).
- bee_rider 1mo agoBreaking “social” up into networking (connecting to my friends: MySpace, old Facebook) and media (social-graph recommended content: TikTok, current Facebook mostly)… the former might stick around. But the latter seems pretty vulnerable to learning model generated content, right? Social media might not exist in a couple decades or might be seen as sort of primitive stepping-stone on the path to algorithmically-generated entertainment media. Which will probably be quite bad, but then, influencer-generated entertainment media was quite bad, so maybe we won’t be too much worse off.