We see the Internet all separately, because we're living through it, but centuries from now our descendants will label it with some catch-all, and compress the timeframe (as we do with 'printing press'....there were 70 years between Gutenberg and Luther, for example).
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Which is a long way of saying, we can obsess over the various issues of the day: 'fake news', FB/TWTR's reaction to misinformation campaigns, etc. But if the Internet is even only half as momentous as we think, the impact will be much bigger than some Russian election drama.
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We are living through a historical pivot that future schoolchildren (assuming there are schoolchildren) will study. Ironically, one of the casualties of Internet mind is the inability to think beyond the frantic eternal present, and contextualize our experience historically.
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Thus do we teeter on the knife's edge of the next FB or TWTR notification, and the next tragic news item, not realizing how the very medium that's become so pervasive as to be invisible has warped the very way we think about the world. More in my next
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This reminds of one of the main points The Sovereign Individual tries to put across... we’re in the middle of a shift that is way bigger than any particular nation-state’s shenannigans
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"By any historical measure, we are gods. Nay, we are confused indestructible alien god-babies. We possess powers we can barely fathom, much less master. And they’re rewiring our brains, reshaping our bodies, molding our behaviors." - The McFuture Manifesto https://www.ideafaktory.com/manifesto/ pic.twitter.com/WLKsO8Jg5X
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