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The web lets me instantly view a video from a mis-remembered TV show from fifteen years ago. I can instantly fly to anywhere in the world and peer at it from s
by 7952 14y ago
The web lets me instantly view a video from a mis-remembered TV show from fifteen years ago. I can instantly fly to anywhere in the world and peer at it from space. I can communicate across thousands of miles and search a massive repository of information. Humans have been imagining such god like powers for thousands of years. We don't lack imagination but self knowledge. Will that power corrupt us or make us better?
- pmcg 14y agoI think "power corrupts" applies more to relative power, not absolute "power". If you were the only person in the world with those abilities, you could use that to exert control over other people and that kind of power might corrupt.