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Re:The French Number – Connect to a random French person and... by Broken_Hippo on Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:59PM (#12379350)
"The world is much less poetic and open minded than many techno utopians would like to think".

A short read on news stories or youtube videos reminds me of that. I'm nearly always disappointed. I'm one of those techno utopians. I had great hope for the internet 20 years ago. You know, folks broadening their minds, learning things, not being so racist, finding similarities between places, and so on. And while they have, to an extent, I'm still sorely disappointed.

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Re:The French Number – Connect to a random French person and... by aphextron on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @01:21AM (#12387709)
It's more that these technologies have just widened the gulf between people who already cared about those techno utopian ideals, and the ones who never will under any circumstances.
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