Re:The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More...
by pavel_lishin on Saturday April 22, 2017 @08:26PM
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> But before the internet you had to go out of your way to find a second snakeoil salesman. In the internet age, they can be your whole village.
Well, they'd pass through your village at regular intervals. But I understand what you're saying - in the old days, a snake-oil salesman had to travel through each village, and risk his business and life. Today, you can hire a botnet to reach ten million people with your claims of a magic stock about to rise, or a pill that makes you irresistible to women, or a device that cures your cancer.
Well, they'd pass through your village at regular intervals. But I understand what you're saying - in the old days, a snake-oil salesman had to travel through each village, and risk his business and life. Today, you can hire a botnet to reach ten million people with your claims of a magic stock about to rise, or a pill that makes you irresistible to women, or a device that cures your cancer.