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I see no reason to conclude that the number of people who "deeply consider the role of their work and its effect on humanity as a whole" has gone down since 197

• dmethvin 12y ago
  I don't have any quantitative data, agreed. The Internet certainly provides a lot more visibility for such contemplation, and I can't recall seeing a lot of it.
  • dasil003 12y ago
    To the contrary, I think one of the defining factors of the Internet is that it creates an unprecedented amount of visibility to shallow contemplation, thereby drowning out any marginal increase in deep contemplation.
    • Kalium 12y ago
      Every era has its overwhelming amount of shallow contemplation. Historians and archivists are excellent at sorting out the deeper material in retrospect.