A big mistake institutionalist romantics make is thinking tech *caused* the ongoing collapse of institutions. No. The evidence is clear. They've been collapsing steadily since 1974. Tech merely created channels for the anger to flow. The dam burst elsewhere.
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But didn't tech cause 1974? TCP/IP. Ethernet. Cellphone and touchscreen patents. C. All in 1973. 😁
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Different era of tech. Also included containerization, plastics/disposability...🙂
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You’re forgetting time constants. Those things took years to have full impact. In fact even now they haven’t had full impact. Current reaction is still to stuff that happened in the 80s/90s. Just like your 70s tech examples had impact only in 90s.

