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Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me by mafribe on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:08AM (#10777503) 

   prolonged exposure could result in a general improvement
That's certainly what happened after the previous two revolutions in communication: the invention of convenient writing and that of the printing press. So I have high hopes for the third! I doubt that will be part of the bright future though. It is antithetical to better communication.
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Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me by madaxe_again on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:40AM (#10777667)
Eventually, yes, but at the time they'd have been bemoaning this bloody Luther guy and that gutenburg idiot.

Progress doesn't always look like progress at the time. In fact, it rarely does - what we usually see and call progress is actually entrenchment.

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