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Of course the answer is: you can't. You could ten years ago. You could give it a good shot now. But in another ten years it's impossible. We are living in the
by DanielBMarkham 13y ago
Of course the answer is: you can't.
You could ten years ago. You could give it a good shot now. But in another ten years it's impossible.
We are living in the last age of anonymity.
We're also living in the last age of personalized history. When I tell a story from my teenage years, in the 1980s, I get to tell the story any way I like. After all, it's my memories. Each of us are able to own our version of reality, which was very human and very comforting.
For kids going through their teenage years in the 2020s? Their entire life is just a big dataset: where they went, who they talked to, what they said, how their opinions evolved. Not only can they never leave their old life because of hueristics and fingerprints, they can't even enjoy their own version of how their life went. That's a major change in the nature of what it means to be human.