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from working with kids 15 and younger my general impression is that they are all 1. very aware of the pitfalls of dopamine traps, even though they express it in other words. 2. have had their "fill" with being an online pressence/having an online "face".
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I think the move is towards less centralization of content. the mainstream wont go full imageboard, but something new. I think the next big thing will be changing the "profile" idea/format, something you interact with more etherally.
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Replying to @egg_report @VandalPress
Given that we’re post-literate, anything that champions the image will probably be king. The limit isn’t really the technology (after all, this site is just an iteration of the chat rooms that existed from day 1 of the net), so much as hitting the tech-social sweet spot w/ a UI.
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Replying to @tomxhart @VandalPress
Orwell had some effective good design ideas: There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.
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Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a group of teenage girl posting beyonce gifs - forever.
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I think post-literate is fun by the way. Althought I would go with trans-literate myself
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Replying to @egg_report @VandalPress
Whether it’s fun or not, it’s how we are now. I’m not a reactionary who gets off on writing about how nice books smell. Mass literacy was a weird quirk of 19th-20th mass education & printing. In some ways, we’re back to the norm—superstitious peasants hyper stimulated by images.
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Replying to @tomxhart @VandalPress
Difference being that despite what youre saying being true, everyone still considers themselves literate, and will continue to do so as things escalate visually
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Do they, though? 1. Books partially exist these days as status symbols, not to be read as such. 2. Being “literate” will be like owning a horse today as opposed to in the 19th century, i.e. an odd hobby for the elite rather than an indispensable skill. .
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Replying to @tomxhart @VandalPress
I think you will be hard pressed to find anyone admitting to illiteracy as anything other than an attempt at being a funny ironist. I'm on board with your forecast, just dont think it will be acknowledged by either the masses or anyone else. too many political implications
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As long as it is an ironic non-stated state of affairs, things are stable, democracy carries on, stiff upper lip etc
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