2/ Folks mistake some of our apparent social constraints for concrete limitations. "Dunbar's number means we can't navigate more than 150 relationships!" That's true in a narrow sense but it's wrong. It's an atomized view of what *we* are. It misses the graph for the trees!
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3/ Social computing — social media, computer-mediated communications, open source software, wikis, zoom — they're all somewhere between prosthetics that restore some lost functions and sensory extensions that grant us entirely new ones.
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4/ But the kernel is our inherent sociality. In my head, I always imagine that as a dense and foundation core, and everything we add is a small improvement built on top. But the volume of a sphere increases with the cube of its radius!
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