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Re:GPT-4o by bbarnett on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:51AM (#40354182)
Outside of the transition to a large city, virtually everything you've mentioned happened in the last 1/2 century. Even the phone was expensive, and not widely in use in under 100 years ago.

That's massive fast change, and we haven't culturally caught up to any of it yet.

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Re:GPT-4o by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:27AM (#40354473)
Here's another one: We went from in-person story telling to wide distribution of printed materials, sometimes by pseudonymous authors.

This happened from the 15th century onward. By the 19th century more than half the UK population could read and write.

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