Big cities have manifest physical infrastructure that supports and reinforces this pace. A "New York Minute" is a materially different thing than a Birmingham Minute. Which is why environment is a chaos agent while the other is always laggard.
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And it's also why social media is such a destabilizing influence: just as railroads forced the standardization of national time in UK & US, social media is forcing a faster tempo of life across the world.
I think this temporal stratification of civilization is irreversible.
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Wonderful. Thanks for your references - I have been enjoying Simondon!
Yeah every engine can outrun its intrinsic loops...Man is good at harnessing energy to accelerate repeated state evolution; we're just bad at governing its complexities.
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To believe that these can be self-regulating is... children's fantasy.
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Yep, in fact I have it here in my notes about our conversation: "French philosophers & automation"
I think there is a temptation to regard cybernetics too concretely in the context of industrial-era machines & physical environment.. and what we're seeing now with 1gb fiber...
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..and pervasive 4g/5g is is that we have Minimum Viable Bandwidth for *just enough* virtuality that the average person will willingly let themselves be programmed into an extension of an information space, as opposed to be an agent exerting/projecting will into that space.
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So cybernetics have a *much* lower threshold to clear before they are a threat to human agency. Why worry about an army of robots when a small Python script mass de-friending/downvoting can drive swathes of humanity to madness?
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