Re:Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended ...
by DoreenMichele on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:20AM
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Unfortunately, if your "paranoia" successfully protects you, you can't prove that nothing bad happened because of it.
The world has a terrible habit of not counting bad things that should have happened but didn't, even in cases where we know with a fair degree of confidence that it should have gone worse.
Prime examples:
Y2K is often remembered as "Ha! Can you believe they ever thought that was going to be a real problem!"
It was predicted the Kuwait oil fires would burn for years and be a global environmental catastrophe. They were put out in six months.
We didn't celebrate this amazing success on par with the hand wringing we had done about the expected outcome. No one danced in the streets at this glorious news that we averted disaster globally. Instead, it was a minor footnote in stories with more drama.
The world has a terrible habit of not counting bad things that should have happened but didn't, even in cases where we know with a fair degree of confidence that it should have gone worse.
Prime examples:
Y2K is often remembered as "Ha! Can you believe they ever thought that was going to be a real problem!"
It was predicted the Kuwait oil fires would burn for years and be a global environmental catastrophe. They were put out in six months.
We didn't celebrate this amazing success on par with the hand wringing we had done about the expected outcome. No one danced in the streets at this glorious news that we averted disaster globally. Instead, it was a minor footnote in stories with more drama.