you can always tell the central question of an era because it's a question the era desperately needs answered and doesn't know how to ask, and that the next era considers insufferably basic
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hmm, that’s cheating “what happens if we connect all the computers in the world together?”
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that's really good, because yeah, last era was "let's connect all the computers in the world together" without asking the question and now we knowpic.twitter.com/rHZdSci7PB
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How can we reform political/social/religious traditional systems to maximize individual autonomy/prosperity, survival be damned?
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That seems like a good candidate for the current era, tbh, but I could reframe it as “what happens when we get atmospheric CO2 up to 1000ppm and a population of 20 billion”
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"what was the previous question"
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