Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?

Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by baybal2 on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:39AM (#21845385)

Seconding your though. A very good observation about this is that "letting masses into the internets" is very much like the historical period in Europe when popular masses got their hands on the printing press.

Did people immediately utilised the press as a tool of mass enlightenment, and began printing academic literature? No...

The very first popular printed literature were books on witchcraft and on Jew/Moor/Huguenot/Hussite burning.

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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by ryanwaggoner on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:27PM (#21845765)

I love this point, assuming it’s historically accurate. Gives me hope that the issues around privacy, disinformation campaigns, walled gardens, and more, are mostly just inevitable growing pains from trying to harness this incredible capability we’ve built.

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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by buboard on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:57PM (#21846524)

This never stopped. Popular stuff is usually unoriginal and mediocre. It s not going to change

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