Who are humanities people who’ve had a major hand in shaping the Internet? Two I know of are Peter Thiel (philosophy) and Alex Karp of Palantir (‘neoclassical social theory’). Jonah Peretti wrote a cultural theory paper that’s supposedly the genesis of Buzzfeed. Who else?
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That's a reach. They helped shape the culture but can hardly be credited with actually shaping it at a technological level.
That kind of thing is rare. Arthur Clarke with geostationary satellites and Star Trek with cellphones come to mind as clear SF --> tech influences
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Maybe this is a stretch but a lot of Ivt League Humanties majors became bankers and are now involved in crypto. Can’t name names but it’s. a group that’s pretty pervasive in finance.
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Hmm I’d put Econ in social sciences rather than core humanities. Design is an edge case.
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