Complete the analogy: if...
Meatspace is ground level
4chan is underground/underwater
Twitter is atmospheric flight
_____ is low-earth orbit
_____ is interplanetary space
_____ is interstellar space
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I would probably put reddit at atmospheric flight
Twitter is low-earth orbit
stackoverflow is interplanetary space
not sure what interstellar space would be.
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Twitter threads about twitter
Constructive online dialogue
Popping everyone's filter bubble
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online contribution via third party bootstrap platforms is low-earth orbit
online contribution via open source full stack is interplanetary space
quantum transmission of noumenal glyphs & gesture is interstellar space
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Wikipedia editing is in interplanetary space but the talk pages dip down into the blue of atmospheric flight.
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Inbox zero is LEO: few get there, and it's not that impressive when you do.
Reliable video chat is interplanetary space. We rarely get to go there, except in robotic tests.
True telepresence is interstellar, and just as fictional.
And Slack is faking the moon landing.
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instagram is low-earth orbit
youtube is interplanetary space
plain old TV is interstellar space
TV is absolutely still able to maintain its grip on the collective media psyche. the Extremely Online tend towards myopia. Most Americans still watch 6 hours of television per day
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printmedia (newspapers and mags) is leo (divorced from earthly goings on)
facebook and google is interplanetary space (millions of islands)
law is interstellar space (absolutely no relation to earthlings)










