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Poll: Are we on the cusp of a dark age online and/or offline (defined as inward turn of life from public spaces into more private ones, with stronger boundaries everywhere, for at least a generation)?
  • Yes on both fronts
    41%
  • Yes offline, no online
    11.9%
  • No offline, yes online
    21.2%
  • No on both fronts
    25.9%
278 votesFinal results
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An age is characterized by what is cheap, what is expensive, and what is possible. In the future general consensus, even about basic facts, will become more expensive. The cheapness of wide consensus was a weird bubble roughly coeval with the Bretton Woods system. RIP.
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