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Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet by pron on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:35AM (#21386929)
Almost every big positive change in society is a result of people feeling negative about the status quo.

This reminds me of Steven Pinker who goes around saying, please stop whining; some/many/most/all things are better than they used to be! while somehow neglecting the fact that to the degree things are better, they usually are because people didn't stop whining.

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Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet by schnable on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:49AM (#21387096)
I think Pinker's point is that many of the people whining are trying to "fix" things by changing the very things that got us here in the first place -- much of which was luck, or success after many failures, not just people whining.
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Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet by rinchik on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:42AM (#21387012)
Well, yeah I agree that makes sense. I misspoke. Only idiots are always happy and this endless treadmill, our ability to see possible improvements in systems that were already perceived as decent, drives the progress.
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