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The internet shattered the average American’s illusion that everyone else in the country was just like them. That’s having significant political consequences.
I would love to hear you elaborate on this comment.
Well Ive been on the Internet since the 80s so Id say no to that overall, but social media as a whole is destructive... so yes possibly the Internet has destroyed things by proxy.
Deep inside Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking's new book, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, is a great quote attributed to Colonel Robert Bateman: “Once, every village had an idiot. It took the internet to bring them all together.”
Reading LikeWar will help you to avoid being part of this Internet of Idiots (IoI). As much as nobody wants to admit that they get sucked in by confirmation bias, we all fall prey to it. The constant barrage of messages we get through FaceBook, Twitter, our favorite sub reddits, YouTube, and Instagram, subtly impact our world view. Only constant questioning and filtering will protect us from being part of the problem.
Like any viral infection, information offensives work by targeting the most vulnerable members of a population—in this case, the least informed.
Well Ive been on the Internet since the 80s so Id say no to that overall, but social media as a whole is destructive... so yes possibly the Internet has destroyed things by proxy.
I thought the Internet wasn't available to the public until the 90's. This article seems to confirm it, but maybe it was available before then to techies?
I agree that the Internet has made people more skeptical of just blindly following what they are told by government, the news media, and various "experts", but I wouldn't consider that a bad thing.
Btw, I use the Internet primarily for research, followed by reading and posting on City-Data, followed by YouTube videos for entertainment. I don't have any kind of social media except for C-D. (I do think that social media does society more harm than good.)
I've never seen that take before. Can you expand on the logic behind it? Why do you think that infrastructure will be unreliable? Individual households, sure, but the internet runs along the same pipes and poles that all other transmissions run on. Wireless will become more ubiquitous, further alleviating any negative pressure applied by degrading physical hardware.
I get the basic idea of what you're saying, but it's as if you haven't updated your view since the '80s. Humans are an incredibly adaptable and inventive species. I don't understand how you get from having the idea to believing it will happen that way, after giving it some thought.
You haven't seen the vast but less visible infrastructure, starting with the giant server farms. There are many sources to read, so here's one I link semi-randomly, from 2018: https://internethealthreport.org/201...ctricity-than/
"The Internet’s data centers alone may already have the same CO2 footprint as global air travel."
Besides everything plugged in, there is also the energy cost of constantly mining raw materials, shipping them around the globe, making new parts and devices, and delivering them to server farms and electronics stores. Server farms get pallets of new hard drives delivered daily. Phone addicts may buy new batteries or new phones annually. Keyboards need replacement when they get pounded or drinks spilled on them. Etc.
Deep inside Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking's new book, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, is a great quote attributed to Colonel Robert Bateman: “Once, every village had an idiot. It took the internet to bring them all together.”
Reading LikeWar will help you to avoid being part of this Internet of Idiots (IoI). As much as nobody wants to admit that they get sucked in by confirmation bias, we all fall prey to it. The constant barrage of messages we get through FaceBook, Twitter, our favorite sub reddits, YouTube, and Instagram, subtly impact our world view. Only constant questioning and filtering will protect us from being part of the problem.
Like any viral infection, information offensives work by targeting the most vulnerable members of a population—in this case, the least informed.
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