The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions

Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by bmmayer1 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:30AM (#21136177)

That's absurd. There have been fewer wars and conflicts and violence in the age of the internet than at any other time. It's possible the internet makes information of such tragedies more readily accessible which is why the world may seem more dangerous, but this couldn't be further from the truth. The interconnected world has made us less bloody, not more.[1]

[1]https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/title-s...

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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by mattkevan on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:08AM (#21136599)

WhatsApp being used to orchestrate ethnic cleansing in Mynanmar [0], or inciting lynchings in India [1] would be two recent examples of tools that remove barriers to communication having unexpected and tragic side effects.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xbbqg/facebook-hired-an-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/20/whatsapp-...

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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by thinkingemote on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:22AM (#21136746)

> absurd

Yes. His humour has a great deal of funny absurdist stuff in it. It becomes funny when it touches some truth.

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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by kryogen1c on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:54AM (#21136432)

> There have been fewer wars and conflicts and violence in the age of the internet than at any other time.

This is certainly more caused by the advent of destructive weapons like nukes, subs, and carriers, than the internet.

its harder to keep secrets like war crimes, atrocities, and genocides, but probably has comparatively little effect on all out war.

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